The quicksilver slickness that characterizes McBride’s best prose is disrupted at times, but the novel demonstrates why she is one of the most thrilling contemporary English-language writers.

In Geography, the default toString() should not print SRID. It should have a separate method (asEWKT) to print EWKT string which has SRID.

character: a fundamental data element. In normal text files, this is just a single byte. In raster images, which is what we're interested in, it's an index that specifies the color of a given pixel. I ...