Afternoon links for February 7, ranging from Anne Carson’s “Nox” to James Sturm’s look at the history of Marvel Comics.
Bites: Dick Cheney’s self-interrogation, Jack Kirby, agave as the nectar of the gods, John Darnielle on black metal
Who’s excited about the Dick Cheney memoirs? Anybody? Anybody? Awww come on, I heard there is an entire chapter dedicated to the time he waterboarded himself on accident. “Jack Kirby didn’t get to be an intellectual.” — Warren Ellis on the late Marvel Comics artist/writer/genius Jack Kirby I didn’t even realize that Lowbrow Reader was still around, and I won’t complain. Thanks HTMLGIANT I was seriously worried that John Darnielle had dropped off the face of the earth, but he […]