Just finished re-reading this for the first time in years, and now have to do the whole Bridge sequence. Riveting, classic Gibson.

Won prize. Big fuss. Bought. Enjoying. YMMV, and yet also screw those guys. Whatever. Woman loves Borges, Pound, can write. Finis.

Several of these are ice-on-spine terrifying. James is the gold standard of ghost stories for me.

People go crazy for Darkness At Noon, but this is amazing too - especially for writers. A treasury of superstition and precursor science, archetypes and images. Fascinating.

You know the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where they put the Ark of the Covenant in a huge warehouse full of anonymous crates? Borges writes the whole world like that, and beautifully. One of my touchstone authors.