Let me start with two things: 1) I’m glad I don’t have to code this post, because the amount of ö
Dracula Was Killed by a Texan with a Bowie Knife (and other true tales)
You heard that right, it wasn?t Van Helsing or Jonathan Harker who killed Dracula, it was one of America?s boys!
A Cluster of All-Purpose Book News: February 20, 2019
Quote of the Post:
?Comics will break your heart.? ? Jack Kirby
A Cluster of All-Purpose Book News: February 11, 2019
Quote of the Post:
“Maybe ever?body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
Books Are Horrifying
At least, I wish more were. In trying to decide what to write about for the latest Slushpile, I pored over Best Of lists (still going strong on the cusp of February!),
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
In my mind, no writer and illustrator were better paired than Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell. Go ahead, ask a Gen X’er: “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark”
Blind Faith: A Murder That Didn’t Add Up
Back when Rolling Stone was in magazine form, c. 1988, I bought a copy because it had Guns N?
Kristen Roupenian Is Not Cat Person
As an apt follow-up to both my previous post about a writing career’s sure path to poverty, as well an earlier post about how an unknown writer’s first short story in the New Yorker led to a seven-figure deal with an S&S imprint,
NYT: Writers Will Now Starve to Death, Die
Unless they’re Ernest Hemingway. In this edition of “Why did I major in English?” or, “Why did I go to a liberal arts college?”
Olivia Newton-John Is Not Abe Vigoda
2019 has already seen the deaths of Super Dave Osborne, Mean Gene Okerlund, and Neil Young’s ex-wife. But not only is Aussie singer-actress Olivia Newton-John not dying,
ASoIaF Release Date News: There Still Is No Release Date
[Spoilers, kinda]
Game of Thrones has more sex and acronyms than an orgy in an all-hands business meeting.
But even less titillating is the fact that there’s still no release date for the final books in the A Song of Ice and Fire (ASoIaF) series?The Winds of Winter (WoW) and A Dream of Spring (ADoS).
I Was A Barnes & Noble Bookseller
Yesterday I applied for a job at Barnes & Noble. The last time I?d done so was when I was 21 in 1996,
Who’s worse, Trump or Omarosa?
It’s a trick question, they’re both horrible.
America met Omarosa Manigault Newman when she was a 2004 contestant on Trump’s “The Apprentice”
Hachette Has Found God
In a move that will surprise no one, Hachette has bought another publishing house?Worthy Publishing Group,
The girl who would have been a killer queen
To quote Sunday’s New York Times’ Book Review: “Picasso desperately wanted to marry her. Peter Sellers would have settled for an affair.
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