Same spiel, different list. Each book had to be vetted for enjoyment and quality. Great books I’m not crazy about were skipped and trashy books that I could read over and over again were dispensed with. In no particular order and heavily annotated: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens: Can I just say how much...
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New York Comic Con Suggestions
I think I’ve waited long enough to announce this on the blog. I have been approved for a full press pass to attend New York Comic Con during the second week in October. That means I will be blogging a lot about the goings on at the convention. Thursday night and Friday (the 13...
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Presented Without Comment: Max Brooks Answers Fan Questions
I have to finish a big custom order for the Etsy shop today. I’m waiting out the time to get into Michaels and get a replacement part for a tool I have to use. Please enjoy the following video. I’ll be back with actual content this afternoon.
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Joyce Carol Oates reads “The Knife”
I’m a big Joyce Carol Oates fan. She is an accomplished novelists, poet, literary critic, and even banged out a great non-fiction book on boxing. Oates is arguably one of the strongest short story writers in America today. Here she is reading her story “The Knife.” The use of repetition when the woman becomes...
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Of Mice, Men, and Destructive Imagery
I was in eighth grade when I first read John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. I don’t remember particularly liking the novel because of the ending, but I found myself constantly thinking about it for a few weeks afterwards. In particular, two images kept coming to my mind: the dead mice and the dead...
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Washington Irving: All in the Details
Washington Irving is one of those American authors who I believe is taken for granted. People know of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle.” The latter is required reading in many schools; the former, excerpted for breaks in a class. Yet he is more than those two iconic stories. His first...
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Vincent Price reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold Bug”
What can make one of my favorite Edgar Allan Poe stories even better? Vincent Price reading it. I have to go take care of a bunch of business things this afternoon, but I’ll be back tonight with another meatier post. Please to enjoy Vincent Price’s excellent reading of “The Gold Bug,” complete with bizarre...
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Zombie Romance, or, Dear Me Why Is This Stuff Real?
I’ve tweeted photos of these books many times. I’m drawn to them for whatever reason in the slowly dwindling horror section at my local bookstore. The titles pounce out at me like lionesses on the hunt and I’m forced to pick them up and examine the cover. The genre is Zombie Romance and I’m...
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Happy Bloomsday: A Guide to Knowing Your Ulysses Schemata
Bloomsday is this Thursday and I couldn’t be more excited. I’ve memorized my favorite page of the novel (the early rise of Bloomusalem) and will exchange recitations with friends and strangers alike throughout the day. I’ll be rereading The Dubliners as I’m not sure I’m up to racing through Ulysses again. So what is...
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Presented Without Comment: Margaret Atwood Destroys Interviewer
I’m really distracted today by a bunch of different things. Please to enjoy the most badass interview with an author of all time. Margaret Atwood tears an interviewer from the CBC apart for obviously not even reading the book she’s being interviewed for. It’s stunning. Unfortunately, the video is only available on the CBC...
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