Where’s a good place to start with Tchaikovsky? He seems… prolific.
I couldn’t get into the spider one, but page-turner sounds v appealing right now

@cidelson.bsky.social Hi Charles, you don’t know me, but I just wanted to say I was moved by your article about Conn Hallinan. Conn taught me at UCSC
20+ years ago, and though we never met again, I never forgot him. I still find myself thinking, what would Conn do here? A wonderful guy. Thanks,Paul

I interviewed Briggs about 20 years ago, and mentioned how WTWB had terrified me as a kid, and the reports of children fainting in boarding schools after reading it – he said something like, “jolly good, it did the job it was supposed to do then”

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