tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post7052836768518472292..comments2024-03-28T05:19:28.500-04:00Comments on Patricia Abbott (pattinase): Short Story Wednesdaypattinase (abbott)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-4745988752050827582021-11-05T11:50:55.176-04:002021-11-05T11:50:55.176-04:00I'll need to find a copy of this story...I'...I'll need to find a copy of this story...I've finally just seen the most recent film THE INVISIBLE MAN, starring Elizabeth Moss, and it's aggressively dumb, while playing the Is she crazy or Isn't she? card for about half the runtime, and then even further trying to concretize the metaphor of an invisible man/relentless controlling and abusive man-"friend"/life partner...if you concretize a metaphor, you have to have it make some real-world sense, something which this film chooses to fail at at every convenience. Or have a good reason for not doing so. <br /><br />I suspect Megan did a Much better job with her fantasticated element, or is it, here...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-30110684605148206942021-11-03T19:47:32.337-04:002021-11-03T19:47:32.337-04:00I have not read any Bibliomysteries, but I have so...I have not read any Bibliomysteries, but I have some on the Kindle and the two volumes that have been published. I think Megan's story is in one of the volumes and I will give it a try. TracyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08303342674824383688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-43775552233329401962021-11-03T18:57:05.429-04:002021-11-03T18:57:05.429-04:00Mine finally up and reasonably legible:
https://s...Mine finally up and reasonably legible:<br /><br />https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2021/11/dog-stories-by-francine-prose-special.html<br /><br />"Dog Stories" by Francine Prose, SPECIAL REPORT: FICTION November 1990-January 1991: "Animals" (the issue's theme) edited by Keith Bellows: Short Story Wednesdays<br /><br />Thanks, as always!Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-88354999474855099222021-11-03T14:57:36.051-04:002021-11-03T14:57:36.051-04:00I might well've picked up that datum from read...I might well've picked up that datum from reading the Highsmith back when it and I were new...(Typed "all" and meant "will" above!).Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-7578700985035132892021-11-03T14:08:12.913-04:002021-11-03T14:08:12.913-04:00Todd, that was the absolute issue in the Highsmith...Todd, that was the absolute issue in the Highsmith pig story. He wanted those truffles and didn't care who got in his way.Jeff Meyersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00093411926030586355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-51107952471489589942021-11-03T12:27:56.213-04:002021-11-03T12:27:56.213-04:00As I recall, the problem with truffle-hunting pigs...As I recall, the problem with truffle-hunting pigs is that they want to, and often all, eat the truffles they find. Truffle hounds apparently less capable (less motivated?), but also less likely to consume the quarry.<br /><br />I'll have one up shortly, if the creek doesn't rise.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18104399586348314594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-9523409814118140882021-11-03T11:50:28.208-04:002021-11-03T11:50:28.208-04:00If I can help it, I don’t read things that induce ...If I can help it, I don’t read things that induce dread, though I’m sure Megan’s story is beautifully written.<br /><br />Jeff, that animal one sounds cool.Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-36438447512071150942021-11-03T10:17:38.582-04:002021-11-03T10:17:38.582-04:00No, not yet. I do want to.
Correction: I did re...No, not yet. I do want to.<br /><br />Correction: I did read Megan's story, on February 14, 2019.Jeff Meyersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00093411926030586355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-28157688697834685792021-11-03T09:58:00.639-04:002021-11-03T09:58:00.639-04:00Have you seen PIG, Jeff, with Nicholas Cage. Prett...Have you seen PIG, Jeff, with Nicholas Cage. Pretty good about a truffle hunting pig. Also someone told me THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS is good. Now that they are not as popular as a decade ago, I wonder if their use is declining. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-56134539941485435632021-11-03T09:31:16.699-04:002021-11-03T09:31:16.699-04:00I like those Bibliomysteries, at least the ones I&...I like those Bibliomysteries, at least the ones I've read. Looks like there are more of them than I realized. This one doesn't seem familiar, so I will look for it. I particularly got a kick out of Laura Lippman's "The Book Thing" because it was about a real place and I've been there (with George and a couple of other friends). Every book in the store was FREE. Really.<br /><br />I read Patricia Highsmith's ELEVEN, which I think I mentioned last week. Some good stories and some very creepy ones, particularly two about snails. And that brings me to the next Highsmith collection, THE ANIMAL-LOVER'S BOOK OF BEASTLY MURDER, which is even stranger. See, in this one, <i>every</i> story is written from the perspective of an animal! There is the camel, being whipped by an awful master. There is the truffle-hunting pig who knows his own mind. There is the dog in Midtown Manhattan. Very strange, as I said.<br /><br />The other collection I finished was Q. Patrick, HUNT IN THE DARK (a Crippen & Landru Lost Classics collection). This has two short stories, two novelets and two novellas, including one each featuring series characters - a World War II spy story involving Peter and Iris Duluth, and a pre-war New England story featuring Dr. Hugh Westlake (whose tales were published as by Jonathan Stagge). More interesting than either, though, is a noirish tale right out of the Cornell Woolrich playbook, "This Way Out," which will remind you of several post-WWII films about returning soldiers like THE BLUE DAHLIA. Steve Glenn's first stop on his return from the Pacific is to beat up playboy Tony Dort, the man who stole his wife Celia (then dropped her). But then Steve has second thoughts and goes back to make sure Tony is alright, only to find him dead, with his body moved. And there is reason to think that just maybe Celia did it. Pretty good collection, especially this 45 page story.Jeff Meyersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00093411926030586355noreply@blogger.com