Author: Alex Irvine
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Daredevil Noir #3 Solicit and #4 Cover
“LIAR’S POKER,” PART 3 The Bull’s-Eye Killer is on the loose in Hell’s Kitchen, and every corpse draws Daredevil deeper into the brewing war between Wilson Fisk and Orville Halloran, the Man Who Would Be Kingpin. Guided by the unerring accuracy of his senses, Daredevil plunges toward a confrontation with Halloran — and a devastating…
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Whole Lotta Madame Bovary
Wow. 4500 pages? Transcribed by a team including teenagers and an oil prospector? And no smut? Anyone searching the new site for “naughty bits” scissored by the publishers will probably be disappointed. Although Flaubert was furious that his text was altered to try to avoid a trial, the censored passages are hardly more explicit than…
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Pleistocene Park
Man, would I love to see this: But in recent years conservationists have set their sights on the more distant past, when Europe’s forests and meadows were replete with elephants, hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses and big cats. Some ambitious conservationists are now advocating a return to norms of wilderness that date back to the Pleistocene era, more…
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Hot-Dog Innovation at Buyout Launch
Buyout launch party rocked. I raise a(nother) glass to Longfellow Books and everyone associated with it. Thanks for coming out, everyone! Apart from all of the booky stuff, CC Robinson introduced me to the brave new culinary world of the hot dog with crushed potato chips on it. After much experimentation, I have concluded that…
Crooked House Fictions 