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To celebrate the release of Glen Baxter\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Almost Completely Baxter: New and Selected Blurtings<\/a>, we\u2019re running two of his illustrations every day this week.<\/em>\u00a0Almost Completely Baxter\u00a0spans four decades of \u201cColonel\u201d Baxter\u2019s work, drawing from such books as\u00a0<\/em>The Billiard Table Murders and\u00a0<\/em>Blizzards of Tweed. \u201cBaxter\u2019s comic realm\u2014the space between image and text, between perplexity and the mundane\u2014is a locale where uncertainty emerges as weird and weirdness recedes into uncertainty,\u201d Albert Mobilio wrote recently in<\/em>\u00a0Bookforum<\/a>. \u201cThe funny arrives as a slow-motion detonation that seems to dissipate as quickly as it boomed.\u201d Baxter\u2019s\u00a0short stories appeared in\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review\u2019s Winter\u00a01972 issue<\/a>; a portfolio, \u201cIt Was the Smallest Pizza They Had Ever Seen,\u201d followed in Summer 1985<\/a>.<\/em>
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Glen Baxter<\/a> is the author of many books since the 1970s, including <\/em>The Impending Gleam, <\/em>The Billiard Table Murders, and <\/em>Blizzards of Tweed. His work has appeared in <\/em>The New Yorker, <\/em>Vanity Fair, <\/em>Elle, <\/em>Vogue, <\/em>Le Monde, the<\/em>\u00a0Observer, and the<\/em> Independent on Sunday. He is a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters, and his art is often exhibited in New York, Amsterdam, Paris, and London, where \u201cColonel\u201d Baxter lives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To celebrate the release of Glen Baxter\u2019s\u00a0Almost Completely Baxter: New and Selected Blurtings, we\u2019re running two of his illustrations every day this week.\u00a0Almost Completely Baxter\u00a0spans four decades of \u201cColonel\u201d Baxter\u2019s work, drawing from such books as\u00a0The Billiard Table Murders and\u00a0Blizzards of Tweed. \u201cBaxter\u2019s comic realm\u2014the space between image and text, between perplexity and the mundane\u2014is 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