Part of a large batch of materials I acquired on the great Republic cliffhangers of the 30s and 40s. This first show & tell features my favorite of them all, THE MYSTERIOUS DR. SATAN (which was originally going to be a SUPERMAN serial), starring Eduardo Cianelli as one of the great mad scientists. I’ll post more from this lot in the coming days and weeks.
The first season was (and remains) my favorite Disney+ STAR WARS project; this second volume looks like it’ll continue that trend. (Aardman!)
An otherwise middling effort at returning to full working schedule but nonetheless a reminder that the main challenge in writing lies not in figuring out in the next scene or sequence but in figuring out the right question to ask. This question can pertain to anything – anything at all – that helps you find your way to an exploration in which the blank scene, the what happens next is nothing more than a byproduct of an exploration, the quandary that solves itself but only through a focused, deliberate exploration of a question: the question is the key, the door the block, the room behind the next piece of the narrative puzzle.
Nearing the halfway mark and I like it quite a bit, more moments of being lost than of understanding, but I do love being lost in Torkaczuk’s writing. Will make it a point to both a.) read everything she’s written and b.) re-read JACOB at some point. My complete reading list, from 2013 to the present, lives here.
