After reading 7 of her novels in 6 days ...

[larryhammer]

... I wonder. We can all name people doing the fantasy equivalents of Heyer and Chandler, among others. Who's writing the fantasy equivalent of Colette? And what would such a work look like, anyway?

Don't say like Tanith Lee -- she hunts a more Decadent hound. Perhaps, though, it is something like The Architecture of Desire.

ObLinky: Destroy.Hot.Action mangles porn clips into a form of abstract video art. NSFW without headphones.

---L.

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I tried and failed to read work by Colette when I was in college. My roommate (had one my first semester) adored Colette's writing, but I bounced off of it. I may years later have read some of her short stories, but if so they left no real trace of their passing on my conscious, or am I confusing Colette and Anais Nin [spelling...]?

Who did Angela Carter write like? Heroes and Villains was a very strange book.

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It's possible to confuse Colette and Nin, I suppose -- both sensual early 20th century French writers.

I thought Carter wrote like Shirly Jackson, but I haven't read Heroes and Villians. I keep bouncing off her short stories.

---L.