At Play In The Fields Of The Lord Of Crazy Books

[princeofcairo]

This year, since my standard DunDraCon schedule is thrown off by a Tiny Tank Meeting (which is why I'm typing this in Oakland), we hit Fields Bookstore (on Polk Street in San Francisco), pound for pound the finest occult bookshop in the English-incanting world, on the Tuesday after the cons rather than the Friday before. And thereby, like the

Comments

[michael_b_lee]

Tiny Tank meeting? Is this related to a project you're working on, or is this just for fun?

[princeofcairo]

Oh, it's a work project.

addendum on Dee

[richardthinks]

Have you read Ben Woolley's bio of Dee (The Queen's Conjuror, owl books, 2001)? Do you have an opinion as to its reliability as a source?

It's louring at me from the bookshelf, but I'm so far behind with my other reading that I'll probably get to it sometime around 2040, unless you can propel it to the top of the queue with a recommendation. It's got a bibliography and notes, so it's presenting itself as something I might want to cite, but there are lots of books that try to pull that one.

Re: addendum on Dee

[princeofcairo]

I don't think there's anything wrong with Woolley's book as a pop history, but for academic purposes, I'd stick with Clulee and/or Sherman.