you can pay your respects to CHICAGO SALUTES THE GRAPHIC ARTS

I love it! It works on its own, and when you know the story it's even better!

The book I'm writing now is a historical YA from the POV of a gay teen Communist NYPL page in 1934-35, so I've been looking into the positive and negative aspects of how public libraries responded to different really hard times.

Emma Goldman's LIVING MY LIFE. It shouldn't have surprised me that her writing is so lively & engaging, but it did!

I loved that book for the reasons you mention & also appreciate the very closely-observed cultural/subcultural details.

I was raised in (& somewhat by?) brutalist library buildings

This is decaf and also the best coffee ice cream I have encountered: www.strausfamilycreamery.com/products/ice...

oh absolutely! which reminds me that I'm still living in hope for the rumored S&A prequel focused on young Frank & Cyril in the early days of the New Burbage Festival

Love that whole trilogy, how he weaves in theatrical history + practical aspects of mounting a production in Lyre of Orpheus, love the absolute creep + plot-driver Parlabane, love Professor The Reverend Simon Darcourt. And dang Davies is good at sins-of-the-fathers-type plotting.

yes this, very much this (three books and counting for one party scene, not to mention *mumble* websites)

These are incredible! (This and the pieces in your previous post.) How heavy is that rattlesnake suit, I wonder?