Alan Jacobs

I wrote a bit about Garth Hudson and the importance of The Band.

Three statements from the early modern era on what humans are, and can become.

Charlie Stross, who before becoming a novelist was a pharmacist, has written part 1 of a guide to poisons and poisoning — but for novelists, not would-be murderers!

My friend and former colleague Ralph Wood has written a lovely tribute to his old teacher Norman Maclean — author of A River Runs Through It.

I wrote a New Year’s post for my Buy Me a Coffee supporters.

I wrote about writing: books, essays, blog posts, notebooks.

Seba Jun: one of one.

Two quotations on what exists. The twoquotes tag is a favorite one of mine.

Noah Millman:

That experience, of meeting the audience on the dreaming plane, is what Lynch excelled at above any other director I can name. More than Luis Buñuel, or Ken Russell, or David Cronenberg, or Hayao Miyazaki, when I watch Lynch, I feel like I have been invited into his private dreams. Sometimes, as with Eraserhead or Blue Velvet, the result is an extraordinary feeling of communion. Other times, as with Inland Empire, I feel unable to meet him there; the world is too hermetic, and these are not my dreams.