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...
The Wooden Spoon (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
At Jezebel , Anna North considers a good question: is it time to stop the Top Book Lists, such as the recent Publishers Weekly Top 10 Books of 2009? As has been noticed in such outlets as The New York Times , there is not a single female author on the list, raising questions about long-held critical biases against women's fiction. Of course, it's possible that the top books of the year were without...
Just One More Page... (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
This month Wendy supplied us with a list of first lines and asks which books we’ve read and which would make it to our tbr list on the basis of the first line. Bold = the books I’ve read Pink = tbr pile 1. Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick 2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen, Pride...
airform archives (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
a few weeks ago, i posted the artwork for a frank lloyd wright bubble gum card that was part of a set of famous americans from the early 1960's. a few days ago i remembered another bubble gum card anomaly... this 1934 "sky birds" bubble gum card of gabriel d'annunzio, pictured as a famous aviator, but on the back also referred to as the "poet flyer". to the best of my knowledge,...
Perpetual Folly (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The linkages in James Joyce’s Dubliners are a bit harder to see than those of some of the modern linked story collections or even its near-contemporary, Winesburg, Ohio. Instead of continuing or overlapping characters, the primary connector in this book is thematic. The setting also brings these stories together—mostly they provide glimpses into working class Dublin—but the real link...
Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
As I step onto the train platform at Suburban Station in Philadelphia, an infinite ocean of people, shops, sounds and smells fly at me in a continuous stream of consciousness. I feel like James Joyce or J.P. Donleavy.
Issa's Untidy Hut (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
This past week was the birthday of rock great, Grace Slick , from one of my favorite 60's bands, Jefferson Airplane (a choice for which I took much flack from close friends). This week's selection is "White Rabbit," which is the second Grace Slick number to land on the Litrock list (here's the first , in case you missed it). Whether it's James Joyce or Lewis Carroll , Slick was always on...
Peter's Paris (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
This is a try to follow the trace of Ernest Hemingway in Paris . Ernest made a short visit to Paris during WWI, but he really arrived here in December 1921, together with his then wife, Hadley, as a reporter for "Toronto Star", but with the ambition to become a real author. They stayed for a short while at "Hôtel d'Angleterre", 44 rue Jacob ... ... and immediately discovered...
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Colm Tóibín A scene from ‘No Worst There Is None’ at the Dublin Theater Festival One of the strangest and most beautiful shows in the Dublin Theatre Festival, which ran during the first week of October, was entitled “ No Worst There Is None ” and concerned the life of the English poet and Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins . It was performed for an audience of twenty-five...
2 Blowhards (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Donald Pittenger writes: Dear Blowhards -- Edward Craig, back in Michigan after bravely braving San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore and living to report his findings here, now unearths for us a surprising nugget of ... well, let him report: * * * * * Michael Blowhard often lamented on this site about the lack of appreciation for the writing skills of popular novelists. These novelists often share...
Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Burying Mr. Poe Poe sites in Bal’more Poe house & museum § Rosmarie Waldrop on the two directions of American poetry, metaphor & metonymy § Nov. 12 in NYC: Wittgenstein’s Voice with Rosmarie Waldrop, Marjorie Perloff, Tom Pepper, Sissi Tax, moderated by Jean-Michel Rabate § The Collected Short Stories of Lydia Davis § Charlotte Mandell , reading her translation...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Press Release from University of Otago DO NOT READ - BANNED ‘ Instruct watch for new novel entitled ‘Butchers Shop’ by Jean Devanny Wellington lady Publishers Duckworth, London, alleged depiction station life New Zealand disgusting indecent communistic’ – Bert (London ). A telegram received from London, 1 March 1926, addressed to Frank David Thomson, the Prime Minister’s...
49 Writers (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
I've heard that more books are sold in the last quarter of the year than in the other three quarters combined, and while the holidays must certainly play a part, I think there's also something about fall and the prospect of winter that makes us want to hunker down an abudance of good reading material. We've said it before, but let's say it again now that the Fall/Winter edition is on the stands: Alaska...
The Fate of the Artist (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
W arren Ellis writes about Gil Kane's isolated publications of 1968 and 1971. He says something that reflects on a stupid argument that I occasionally find myself in. That is, that the 'graphic novel' is widely said to be a 'format,' for example as in this passage I mocked : "One of the most common mistakes made in our medium is the confusion of Comic Books with Graphic Novels. This is sort of...
Nathan Bransford - Literary Agent (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
You know how whenever someone gets disgruntled with the publishing industry they invariably name a classic book and say, "Well, [insert James Joyce, William Faulkner, Herman Melville, other dead white male/Jane Austen here] would NEVER have found a publisher today." And this is supposed to remind us about the fickleness of today's crass publishing business, the shortsightedness of its employees,...
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acanite4rf1 | 08/14/2009
Download Lost in Translation in DVD, DivX, PDA quality! Genres: Comedy | Drama Countries: Japan | USA Actors: Johansson, Scarlett Charlotte Murray, Bill Bob Harris Takeshita, Akiko Ms. Kawasaki Minamimagoe, Kazuyoshi Press Agent Shibata, Kazuko Press Agent Take Press Agent Baba, Ryuichiro Concierge Yamaguchi, Akira Bellboy Lambert, Catherine Jazz Singer du Bois, François Sausalito Piano Leffman, Tim...
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