{"id":59080,"date":"2024-01-27T13:22:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T18:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=59080"},"modified":"2024-01-28T10:49:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T15:49:36","slug":"this-tale-of-tangier-ghosts-hits-the-strike-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2024\/01\/this-tale-of-tangier-ghosts-hits-the-strike-zone.html","title":{"rendered":"In His Strike Zone: A Tale of Tangier Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ULTRAZONE-240.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"366\" data-attachment-id=\"50991\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/ultrazone-240\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ULTRAZONE-240.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"240,366\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ULTRAZONE (240)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ULTRAZONE-240.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ULTRAZONE-240.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50991\" style=\"width:111px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ULTRAZONE-240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ULTRAZONE-240-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/ultrazone-a-tangier-ghost-story-francis-poole\/18598998\"><em>Purchase here.<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">At last a first-class appreciation of the recently published<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/ultrazone-a-tangier-ghost-story-francis-poole\/18598998\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/ultrazone-a-tangier-ghost-story-francis-poole\/18598998\">ULTRAZONE<\/a><\/em>, which had me doing cartwheels when I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2022\/05\/__trashed-2.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2022\/05\/__trashed-2.html\">first read the novel<\/a> in proof copy. Naturally, I wondered how it would be received elsewhere.  Now I know. Alan Moore&#8217;s review catches the book in his strike zone. Both informed and informative, it makes a witty match for a remarkable tale of Tangier ghosts. The review appears in the most recent issue of the British literary journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatscene.net\/first-words\/september-22-2019\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beatscene.net\/first-words\/september-22-2019\/\">Beat Scene<\/a>. Here tiz: <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/BEAT-SCENE-Alan-Moore-review-of-ULTRAZONE-750.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"684\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"59078\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/beat-scene-alan-moore-review-of-ultrazone-750\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/BEAT-SCENE-Alan-Moore-review-of-ULTRAZONE-750.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"750,1123\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BEAT SCENE- Alan Moore review of ULTRAZONE (750)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/BEAT-SCENE-Alan-Moore-review-of-ULTRAZONE-750-684x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/BEAT-SCENE-Alan-Moore-review-of-ULTRAZONE-750-684x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59078\" title=\"DOUBLE-CLICK TO ENLARGE\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/BEAT-SCENE-Alan-Moore-review-of-ULTRAZONE-750-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/BEAT-SCENE-Alan-Moore-review-of-ULTRAZONE-750-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/BEAT-SCENE-Alan-Moore-review-of-ULTRAZONE-750.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last a first-class appreciation of the recently published ULTRAZONE. When I first read the novel in  proof copy, it had me doing cartwheels . Naturally, I wondered how it would be received elsewhere.  Now I know. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ULTRAZONE-240.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-fmU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59080"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59109,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59080\/revisions\/59109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}