Mixed bag this week:
- Montgomery County Student Awarded for Historical Fiction Graphic Novel – local (to me) high schooler awarded a scholarship to complete his graphic novel about Holocaust survivors. Serious stories like these can be effectively told through this format – John Lewis’ “March” series springs to mind. Will be interested to see how this turns out.
- Historical Fiction Novel “The Eighth Day Brotherhood” Explores Art and the Occult in 1880s Paris – one of many novels about nineteenth century spiritualism that seem to be all over the place, but the addition of art moves it to the top of my “looking forward to” list.
- Glam Rock & Yorkshire Occult: The Making Of Ben Myers’ “Turning Blue” – Myers’ own account of how he combined wildly disparate influences into a novel that sounds eerie as hell.
- Exorcism and the Development of Ritual Magic (login required) – paper presented at the Birkbeck University of London’s Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination forum in 2015. EMPHASIS’ other offerings are worth a look as well.