Month: October 2007

Thirteen Scary Questions

Halloween is my Christmas  So last night I paid twenty bucks then stood in line for better than two hours to finally get to stumble and cringe and scream my way through a haunted house. And I’ve got to say, I would have waited four hours. Six. Just because that thrill of being scared, that…

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Happy Halloween!

I’m afraid (no pun intended) that my horror knowledge is woefully lacking. Aside from the trauma that Disney’s The Headless Horseman inflicted upon me as a small boy growing up on a horse farm, I don’t know that much about frights and the things that go bump in the night. So I turned to Stephen…

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Interview: Richard Lange, Author

It’s been a while for me. Fiction hasn’t been moving me much lately. And even my love of short stories had let me down. Nothing was exciting me. Until I read Richard Lange’s Dead Boys: Stories. This wonderous literary collection has enough tint of noir to be thrilling and the author’s voice is undeniable. Full of…

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Slowhand Quickly Ascends the Bestseller List

Eric Clapton’s Clapton: The Autobiography debuted at #2 on The New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller List. It’s an interesting read that I’ll discuss a bit more fully this week. What made my reading experience even more unusual was by immediately following up Slowhand’s book with his former wife Pattie Boyd’s Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison,…

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Akashic Celebrates 10 Years

If you’re in New York City tonight, be sure to swing by the Dweck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library (Central Branch at Grand Army Plaza) to help the great Akashic celebrate ten years of publishing fantastic books. The celebration includes readings by Amiri Baraka, Arthur Nersesian, T Cooper, Preston L. Allen, Felicia Luna Lemus, and…

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