WBH Weekly Digest 2023-04-15 Mapping it Out
New series Land of the Black Sun, a podcast appearance by Ben, the influence of Blade Runner, and sweet fan art.
Satire
With Both Hands Classics: Great Teacher Onizuka
This is the first installment of what I hope to make a regular feature here at With Both Hands, a reflection on a key work of fiction that I find myself returning to again and again that I will call With Both Hands Classics.
For this inaugural edition, let’s
Calydonian Boar Hunt Review
J. Manfred Weichsel is back with another disturbingly funny satire, The Calydonian Boar Hunt. Emphasis on the disturbing. Absolutely no one comes out of this looking good, and it is not for the faint-hearted.
Yet, as disquieting as Weichsel’s work is, I argue that he is performing a valuable
Five Maidens on the Pentagram by J. Manfred Weichsel Book Review
Five Maidens on the Pentagram [Amazon link] is another brutally funny and devilishly inappropriate satire from J. Manfred Weichsel.
I saw another review that described Weichsel’s style as “shoot the hostages”. Since I can’t phrase it any better than that, I will shamelessly steal it.
Absolutely no one
Ebu Gogo by J. Manfred Weichsel Book Review
When J. Manfred Weichsel let me know Ebu Gogo [Amazon link] had come out on Amazon, he warned me it was “Rabelaisian”. If anything, that hardly does the book justice. I figure I can do no better than repeat the author’s words:
Warning: Ebu Gogo has repugnant sex, disgusting
The Big U Book Review
NOT American MegaversityI picked up The Big U while I was organizing my library, and I decided to see if I still liked it ten years [at least] since the last time I had read it.
It turns out, I do! For me, this is the perfect college satire, on