Hooray! I'm not sure if whatever intangible connection I was making with Link's urban fantasy came across, but you enjoyed it nonetheless which is vindicating enough for me. Vindication!
• What typeface is that? I love it, it seems much older and classier than the pub date would imply. Reminds me of childhood in some ineluctable way. But whatever, no one cares about that
For future reference, do not say shit like that to me. Ok? Because you will be getting an answer, whether you like it or not . . .
The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche is typeset in Adobe Palatino, which is a common enough face but, here's the thing, typeset by Ann Mottreally, really well. I suspect that she had the full family of Palatino to play with, since those aren't default/faux small caps. (The rest of Ms. Mott's work shows that she occasionally does some Very Bad Things to unsuspecting typefaces, so I won't heap the praise too highly.)
• I associate the New York Beagle writes about with Simon & Garfunkle's tenure there, or maybe just a bit after. Kind of folksy and as naïve as that city ever could be. But definitely a slice of time before the arrival of cocaine syndicates and the subsequent gritty nastiness.
• Vampires used to be ravenous fiends from beyond the grave, but, once run through the pop culture mill, come out covered in glitter. Which I am still in denial about. Werewolves are going through the same, I expect. (Lemurs ftw though! I will take lemurs over monkeys any day.)
• Come Lady Death is also a very likable story, but I never expect anyone to love it as much as I do. To save myself from outright disappointment in humanity, I point people in the direction of an anthology it's in, and hope they enjoy stumbling across it.
• That copy of Minority Report is seven kinds of O_o. Unfortunately I can pinpoint what's going on in the layout designer's head and it goes like this: "DAMMIT, WHY AM I NOT DAVID CARSON? WHYYYYYYY?? GNRRRRRR." There's sort of a lot of that among designers of a specific age, and some of us take a little longer to come to grips with it.
• I don't actually remember a lot of A Fine and Private Place other than the raven being made of awesome and some very subdued sentimentality. Your reaction to it is not surprising, to say the least.
Aside: Beagle writes short stories well (borderline novellas at times) and he also has a knack for curating other short story collections. I can say that even though The Innkeeper's Song and Giant Bones are equally well-written in a multitude of voices set in the same world, Giant Bones is more enjoyable because it's a bunch of short stories. You might want to steer towards his anthologies in the future, if you want to pursue more of his stuff.
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• What typeface is that? I love it, it seems much older and classier than the pub date would imply. Reminds me of childhood in some ineluctable way. But whatever, no one cares about that
For future reference, do not say shit like that to me. Ok? Because you will be getting an answer, whether you like it or not . . .
The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche is typeset in Adobe Palatino, which is a common enough face but, here's the thing, typeset by Ann Mott really, really well. I suspect that she had the full family of Palatino to play with, since those aren't default/faux small caps. (The rest of Ms. Mott's work shows that she occasionally does some Very Bad Things to unsuspecting typefaces, so I won't heap the praise too highly.)
• I associate the New York Beagle writes about with Simon & Garfunkle's tenure there, or maybe just a bit after. Kind of folksy and as naïve as that city ever could be. But definitely a slice of time before the arrival of cocaine syndicates and the subsequent gritty nastiness.
• Vampires used to be ravenous fiends from beyond the grave, but, once run through the pop culture mill, come out covered in glitter. Which I am still in denial about. Werewolves are going through the same, I expect. (Lemurs ftw though! I will take lemurs over monkeys any day.)
• Come Lady Death is also a very likable story, but I never expect anyone to love it as much as I do. To save myself from outright disappointment in humanity, I point people in the direction of an anthology it's in, and hope they enjoy stumbling across it.
• That copy of Minority Report is seven kinds of O_o. Unfortunately I can pinpoint what's going on in the layout designer's head and it goes like this: "DAMMIT, WHY AM I NOT DAVID CARSON? WHYYYYYYY?? GNRRRRRR." There's sort of a lot of that among designers of a specific age, and some of us take a little longer to come to grips with it.
• I don't actually remember a lot of A Fine and Private Place other than the raven being made of awesome and some very subdued sentimentality. Your reaction to it is not surprising, to say the least.
Aside: Beagle writes short stories well (borderline novellas at times) and he also has a knack for curating other short story collections. I can say that even though The Innkeeper's Song and Giant Bones are equally well-written in a multitude of voices set in the same world, Giant Bones is more enjoyable because it's a bunch of short stories. You might want to steer towards his anthologies in the future, if you want to pursue more of his stuff.