The Magic Theater is the name I gave to this slot, a broad space where I can discuss books and sometimes mangas, and ideas related to them, and share it with other people who hopefully have similar interests or at least enjoy what I have to say and how I say it. The diversity I find on DKos and the quality of the posters and readers who are involved, make it a truly special community and social network.
The title of this weekly series is a reference to German novelist Herman Hesse's novel Steppenwolf, and I thought it most fitting. The Magic Theater was a surreal place that Henry Haller enters, and which contains an endless hallway of doors, which each open to take him into possibilities and liberate him from the intense, constricted tone of the novel up to that point; in a sense he is liberated from himself and his depression and given hope that he can change himself. I view this as the perfect metaphor for art, and so think it is the perfect name for my slot. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to The Magic Theater. I have a special door to open for you this week: