http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/12345/lost-found-a-n-devers-2.html Home of the magazine, the books, and the conference Mon, 20 May 2013 07:45:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/12345/lost-found-a-n-devers-2.html#comment-6607 Day in Review | Ebooks on Crack Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:36:16 +0000 http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/?p=12345#comment-6607 [...] The uncanny Edogawa Rampo [...] [...] The uncanny Edogawa Rampo [...]

]]> http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/12345/lost-found-a-n-devers-2.html#comment-6600 Afternoon Bites: Edogawa Rampo, Jami Attenberg Team-Up, Pamela Ryder, and more | Vol. 1 Brooklyn Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:24:49 +0000 http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/?p=12345#comment-6600 [...] “Like Poe’s “The Gold Bug,” many of Rampo’s stories incorporate cryptograms and logic puzzles for the reader to solve.  But his early work can’t be labeled uniformly derivative.  Rampo separates himself by his fixation on the erotic, on the pleasures of the body, an obsession set uncomfortably against the anxious backdrop of a pre-war society struggling with identity in the face of Westernization.” At Tin House, A.N. Devers tells us of the work of Edogawa Rampo. [...] [...] “Like Poe’s “The Gold Bug,” many of Rampo’s stories incorporate cryptograms and logic puzzles for the reader to solve.  But his early work can’t be labeled uniformly derivative.  Rampo separates himself by his fixation on the erotic, on the pleasures of the body, an obsession set uncomfortably against the anxious backdrop of a pre-war society struggling with identity in the face of Westernization.” At Tin House, A.N. Devers tells us of the work of Edogawa Rampo. [...]

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