On Alice Blackhurst’s “Luxury, Sensation and the Moving Image”
IT SITS THERE like a pale gemstone on your lap: the tall, slim, Instagrammable volume you waited for. You hold…
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Every Man His Own Hipster | Andrew Martin
The neglected work has a number of advantages over the acknowledged masterpiece. First, it has the element of surprise: we…
Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution – Eric Jay Dolin
Summary: The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet missing…
Stephen King’s Misery in a signed, limited edition
Suntup Press has announced limited editions of Stephen King’s Misery in Artist Gift, Limited…
Becky’s Book Reviews: April Reflections
In April, I read fifty-five books. I am a little shocked I read exactly the same number of books as…
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
As a kayaker, I may be more receptive than some readers to a good seafaring tale, but really: What’s not…
10 Essential LGBTQ Novels
By C.E. McGill | C.E. McGill was born in Scotland and raised in North Carolina. Their debut novel, Our Hideous…
Twitter Reveals Edit Button Under Development
Posted on April 5, 2022 Twitter revealed today it is working on an Edit button. The ability to edit a…
Stark House Mystery Classics – Ed Gorman
Pick up a copy of Stark House’s beautiful The Autumn Dead / The Night Remembers volume from Amazon today! Source…
This month’s best paperbacks: Salman Rushdie, Margo Jefferson and more | Books
Africa is Not a Country Dipo Faloyin A long-overdue corrective Although he now lives in London, writer and editor Dipo…
Watch Iggy Pop Perform Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
Of the original members of the Stooges, only Iggy Pop still lives. He has by now survived a great many…
National Poetry Month Day 23: Porsha Olayiwola
National Poetry Month Day 23: Porsha Olayiwola MARGARET GARNER CROSSES THE OHIO RIVERONLY TO GET CAUGHT…
SF as Mode of Action: On MIT Press’s “Uneven Futures”(2022)
¤ Roger Luckhurst is professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. The post SF as…
‘A Book is a Quiet Weapon’ | Carol Schaeffer
At a recycling facility outside Kyiv, the face of Vladimir Lenin gazed from the cover of a discarded biography among…
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China – Fuschia Dunlop
Summary: Food writer Fuschia Dunlop went to live in China as a student in 1994, and from the very beginning…
Suntup Press’ The Eyes of the Dragon Fine Art Print
Suntup Press, publishers of the upcoming limited edition of Stephen King’s Misery,…
79. Dial A for Aunties
Dial A for Aunties. Jesse Q. Sutanto. 2021. 299 pages. [Source: Library] First sentence: There is a curse in my…
“True, child worries about a prized ribbon being cut in half don’t measure up to adult anxieties about job security or rent increases, but that doesn’t make them any less valid or real.”
At Avidly: Cleary is just one example of an author who wrote for a certain age range, but whose…
Meir Shalev, Whose Novels Found Humor in Israeli Life, Dies at 74
Meir Shalev, whose novels affectionately satirizing Israel’s pioneers made him one of the nation’s leading writers, died on Tuesday at…
This Week’s Bestsellers: April 17, 2023
House Warming Kate Morton’s seventh novel, Homecoming, lands at #2 on our hardcover fiction list. The author “delivers an eerie…
U.S. Postal Service Honors Shel Silverstein With Forever Stamp
Posted on August 5, 2022 The U.S. Postal Service honored poet, children’s author and illustrator Shel Silverstein with a stamp…
Ed Gorman’s blog: BETTER ED
Normally I would just provide a link, but this BETTER DEAD review from Ed Gorman’s blog is so smart and trenchant (not…