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Subway Literature: Shaun Tan’s Tales from Outer Suburbia

• June 13, 2009,
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• Author: Kate
• Categories: Subway Literature
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  Tags: Barry Yourgrau, Books in the Pie-Cooling Cupboard, Books that Have Made Me Cry, Books that Have Made Me Miss My Subway Stop, Geeking Out After a Glass of Bourbon, Shaun Tan, Tales From Outer Suburbia, Times I Reference Freud's Essay on the Uncanny, Wearing Dad's Head

This book is going on my special bookcase, the one that used to be a pie-cooling cupboard and has chickenwire screens in front of each shelf. Only my very favorites go in the pie cupboard. Fortunately Tales from Outer Suburbia is very narrow, because there’s not much space left in there. If I can manage it, I will file it next to Barry Yourgrau’s Wearing Dad’s Head, because Outer Suburbia reminded me a lot of reading Yourgrau. Both books are [...]