Since so many authors have not been able to make the usual circuit of events this past year, seventeen of the authors who publish with McFarland (including yours truly) will be speaking this Saturday at a virtual event from 1-5 EST. My McFarland book is Spenser, Milton, and the Chronicles of Narnia, but it came out a while back, and these days, when I talk about Spenser, I like to talk about Cormoran Strike, so I’ll be giving a short talk highlighting some of the great Spenser/Strike connections that we have enjoyed exploring here. I hope you’ll join me, and some of the other interesting folks who will be speaking on topics as diverse as Terry Pratchett, Women in Sci-fi, Horror Movies, and everything in between!
Long overdue, but here, at last, is the seventh installment in our series on Edmund Spenser’s Strike influence. As we 
suspected from the first preview peeks at the Table of Contents for Troubled Blood, The Faerie Queene’s influence for this installment of the Denmark Street mysteries goes far beyond catchy little opening quotations to get the reader’s attention at the beginnings of sections and chapters. Rowling-Galbraith has skillfully woven in connections with Edmund Spenser’s grand epic poem, and delightfully mirrors the structure of the poem with the structure of the novel. As we’ve now reached the end, that brings us to Part Seven of Troubled Blood and the (sadly) incomplete Book VII of The Faerie Queene, so join me after the jump for seven thoughts about the great connections between these short ending pieces of really long texts!
Apologies for the late post today! With these hefty readings, I’m falling behind nearly as much as my students, but I dare say I’m having more fun with my reading than they are with theirs! I hope you’re enjoying the threads we’ve thus far discovered that tie Troubled Blood to its literary inspiration, Edmund Spenser’s epic Faerie Queene. If you have not been following along with our multi-faceted coverage of the new Cormoran Strike novel, I hope you’ll catch up, and then I hope you’ll come with me after the jump as we enter the next season, both literally and figuratively, in the latest installments of the adventures of our modern-day knights Artegall and Britomart, Strike and Robin.
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