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Summary: A Fascinating Glimpse into the Author's Creative Process
Review: This volume includes a transcription of Clark Ashton Smith's "Black Book", a notebook in which he kept story ideas and plot germs, invented names, story titles, possible content tables for story collections, and so on. This makes for fascinating reading, as it reveals the author's creative process at work, with variants on the finally published stories, unused ideas, and so on. There are also a number of CAS's poems in draft form, along with the final versions -- and several of these are among his best. Also included are some interesting memoirs of meetings with CAS. All in all, this is an essential item for CAS fans.
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Summary: A Fascinating Glimpse into the Author's Creative Process
Review: This volume includes a transcription of Clark Ashton Smith's "Black Book", a notebook in which he kept story ideas and plot germs, invented names, story titles, possible content tables for story collections, and so on. This makes for fascinating reading, as it reveals the author's creative process at work, with variants on the finally published stories, unused ideas, and so on. There are also a number of CAS's poems in draft form, along with the final versions -- and several of these are among his best. Also included are some interesting memoirs of meetings with CAS. All in all, this is an essential item for CAS fans.
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