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Articles by Mindy Farabee

May 16, 2012

Salty Gothic: Nick Dybek’s When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man 1

Dybek isn’t just alluding to Stevenson, but also riffing on Richard II and something of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, while dropping in Japanese auteurs and Greek mythology, to weave in heavily freighted dreams and the vaguely supernatural.

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