Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Every week we'll post about what books we have received that week (via your mailbox/library/store bought)! Created by The Story Siren ! For Review (4) Life After 187 by Wade J. Halverson The Secret of Joy by Melissa Senate (blog tour) What Your Mother Never Told You: A Survival Guide for Teenage Girls by Richard M. Dudum 600 Hours of Edward by Craig Lancaster Library (5) The Red Badge of Courage by...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Add the Almighty Creator of the Universe to the long list of beloved characters who have survived their own deaths. At Obit mag, Nathan Schneider resurrects the "death of God" movement of the 1960s. This theological school is best remembered today by a Time mag cover story that was quoted in Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby and misquoted in Bernie Taupin's lyric for "Levon" (which also...
Lady Lazarus (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
As much as I hate to do this, it's gotta be done. I'm an avid reader but not a fast one and, lately with my new job and life being slightly more hectic, I've barely had time to read. There isn't any way I'm going to read and finish four Classic books by the end of tomorrow and, as much as I'm really enjoying it, I'm not going to be able to finish Interview with the Vampire by tomorrow. This means I'm...
The Kill Zone (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
By Kathryn Lilley Like all writers, I love discovering slightly fresh uses for words. Recently I ran across the following passage in The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin, which describes a waitress in traditional dress: "Her white-mittened feet whispered over the tatami." I think "white-mittened" and the verb "whispered" in this sentence perfectly convey the woman's movements,...
Lady Lazarus (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Title: Rosemary's Baby Author: Ira Levin Year: 1967 Rating: 4/5 Plot: Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse are a young married couple just about to move into the Bramhouse, an old Gothic-style New York City apartment complex with a disturbing history of witchcraft and murder. After the suicide of a young woman living down the hall, Guy and Rosemary befriend their neighbours, Mr. and Mrs. Castevet, an eccentric...
Fantasy Book Critic (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Official Sarah Langan Website Order “ Audrey’s Door ” HERE Read Fantasy Book Critic’s Review of “ The Missing ” AUTHOR INFORMATION: Sarah Langan is the author of three horror novels: “ The Keeper ”, the Bram Stoker Award -winning “ The Missing ”, and her newest effort “ Audrey’s Door ” which has already been optioned for...
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
Fun fact; I read this book because of a throwaway reference to it on "The Venture Brothers" episode "¡Viva los Muertos!" and I have to encourage you once again to start watching this show if you're not. And I will...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Victoria: A comedy/thriller by Ira Levin. Audiences will be held enthralled until the final, startling moments of the play.
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Victoria: A comedy/thriller by Ira Levin. Audiences will be held enthralled until the final, startling moments of the play.
The Daily Gazette stories (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
It must be said that a great deal of talent has been lavished on The Theater Barn’s production of Ira Levin’s “Veronica’s Room.”
The enemies of reason (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Let me kick off with this. If you're a journalist and you think it's in any way (a) bright (b) funny (c) original (d) clever or (e) in any way fucking amusing to use your privileged position with a national newspaper to write tired, cliched bollocks from about nineteeneightyfuckingthree about "Ooh, aren't men terrible? Pffft it'd be a better world without them, innit?" then the world would...
2 Blowhards (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- * Enjoy the latest offering from Charlton Griffin, frequent 2Blowhards visitor and producer of some of the classiest audiobooks available. * Big Hollywood's Matt Peterson continues his series about conservatives and literature. * Cullen Gallagher reads and enjoys "Pick-Up," by the pulp master Charles Willeford. * Whatever became of sexy-trashy blockbuster...
Rafe McGregor (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
I came across this list by Stephen King, of his ten favourite modern horror novels (except for the last, which is a collection of short stories), in Danse Macabre . It's worth noting that the book was first published in 1981, so the title of this post is a cheat, and should really read: Stephen King's Horror Top Ten 1946-1980 . Nonetheless, I found the selection interesting, and Mr King writes about...
Another 52 Books (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
Try some good horror novels or supernatural thrillers. I have enjoyed: Shirley Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House Henry James: The Turn of the Screw Edgar Allan Poe's short stories Algernon Blackwood's short stories and novellas, e.g. "The Willows" and "The Wendigo" H.P. Lovecraft’s short stories Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla” Bram Stoker: Dracula Mary Shelley:...
Movie Talk (Free subscription) | 06/14/2009
1. The Stepford Wives is based on the novel by Ira Levin, who also penned Rosemary’s Baby. 2. It tells the story of Joanna, a young housewife who moves from New York to the suburban town of Stepford and slowly discovers something sinister behind the tranquil air of her neighbours. The film has spawned the sequels [...]
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