{"id":2886,"date":"2011-01-17T11:48:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T17:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2021-12-30T14:53:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T20:53:54","slug":"literary-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/literary-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clare Vanderpool used to work in the youth ministry office here in the Wichita diocesan chancery. She got married and left the office, and I eventually lost track of her. I just now discovered that not only has she published a novel, Moon Over Manifest<\/b><\/i>, but it won the 2011 Newberry Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Tim Powers is occasionally compared to Neil Gaiman, but the writer he most reminds me of is that other Inkling, Charles Williams. Novels like The Anubis Gates<\/b><\/i> and Expiration Date<\/b><\/i> are direct descendents of Williams’ “spiritual thrillers.” As of 1\/11\/11, Declare<\/b><\/i>, possibly Powers’ best book, is available at audible.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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If you’re wondering where I found the name for this weblog, it’s from John Bellairs’ little metaphysical farce, The Pedant and the Shuffly<\/b><\/i>. While checking on other matters this morning, I found that all of Bellairs’ non-young adult books have recently been collected into a single volume, Magic Mirrors<\/a><\/b><\/i>, including The Pedant<\/b><\/i> and The Face in the Frost<\/b><\/i>. Of note is St. Fidgeta and Other Parodies<\/b><\/i>, which Catholics who remember “aggiornamento” will particularly appreciate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clare Vanderpool used to work in the youth ministry office here in the Wichita diocesan chancery. She got married and left the office, and I eventually lost track of her. I just now discovered that not only has she published a novel, Moon Over Manifest, but it won the 2011 Newberry Award. ***** Tim Powers … Continue reading “Literary notes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[132,292,569],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","tag-clare-vanderpool","tag-john-bellairs","tag-tim-powers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Ky","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160465,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/160465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}