Banned Books Week to have focus on Comics
Comics have long been an easy target when it comes to panicked adults and headline craving politicians seeking an easy target for perceived moral corruption. The history of the censoring…
Bad Buys: McSweeney’s Book Release Club
On occasion we must gather to censure rather than celebrate those publishers who provide us book addicts with our fixes. I come to bury McSweeney's Book Release Club, not to…
Good Buys: Powell’s Books’ Indiespensable book club
Book clubs are a good risk. The greatest risk of receiving regular books in the mail is that you won't care for the book. As I love a shelf of…
Mixed Media: A Shirley Jacksonesque conversation about Shirley Jackson
“It’s just that,” said Miss Pryor as she stabbed her cigarette out, “there’s a rather beastly amount of italics.”“The better to brainwash you with,” said Ms. Queen, who was rather…
Review: The Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan
As part of r/horrorlit’s Horror Novel a Day writers, I’m pretty sure of two things: I took on too many novels (six total) and my definition of horror is suspiciously…
Comic event: Dirt Candy authors to speak at Omnivore Books
Comics delight me to my core and cooking soothes my soul. So I loved Dirt Candy, a graphic novel that serves as both accessible cookbook and charming memoir, before I…
Mixed media: The sanctity of books
So there’s this book. It’s about a scary filmmaker and his scary films. This premise is not without promise. But what earned it a spot on Gawker is its accompanying…
Publishing kerfuffle du jour
Lit Reactor has a great précis of yet another thieving publisher. In addition to using an unregistered company with a name derived from a legitimate small press, this one is…