It’s the middle of Women’s History Month and we’re facing some of the most aggressive attacks on women ever in this country, while people are overwhelmed by the terrible tragedies in Japan and the desperate battles for autonomy in the Gulf as people fight against dictators who have traditionally been propped up with help from…
Category: Alan Moore
Friday’s ‘Forgotten’ Books: The Corinthian
Georgette Heyer should be a household name; that’s the only thing that qualifies this as a “forgotten” book. Heyer is still a nonpareil amongst romance readers, but little known beyond that group. I only learned about her because of Stephen Fry; for his 50th birthday he had a short program on his “guilty pleasures” and…
World AIDS Day
There’s a campaign on to have an AIDS-free generation born by 2015. A lot of work to be done first. It can be done. Commemorate World AIDS Day with something meaningful. These cool Dia de los Muertos t-shirts already sold out but there are many other ways to help raise awareness and help research. I’m…
BitchBuzz: Panopticon
Happy Birthday, Alan Moore, who doesn’t use the intarwubs, so he’ll never see this, but he’ll know somehow 😉 Here’s my column for the day which risks disrupting the space/time continuum by discussing French literary theory with a popular audience: Welcome to the Panopticon! How an 18th century social theorist foresaw the wretched state in…
Interviewed at UnBound / BitchBuzz
The wonderful Adele over at the fabulous book review (and more) blog, UnBound has interviewed me and wormed many secrets out of me 🙂 and that’s me laughing at the noodle restaurant the week before. It was such a pleasure getting to know in real life someone I had got to know over the ‘net….
Magus: The Alan Moore Conference (Day Two)
Here’s another one of Adele’s photos: just out of shot to Alan’s left is me holding Melinda’s glass. One of these days, I’m going to remember to take a picture with them. But don’t they look sweet together? More on thee two later. I left London on the same train as I had the day…
Magus: The Alan Moore Conference (Day One)
Here’s a lovely photo of me and Marc Singer snapped by the wonderful Adele, who already has her write-up of the Magus conference up over at her book blog, UnBound, and has pictures up as well. I was looking forward to this conference despite not quite having my paper done before I headed off to…
BitchBuzz: Relax!
My latest column features something I know a bit about these days: relaxing! The other night I joined my intrepid editor for the launch of Starbucks’s new Discoveries drinks, who partnered with Mills & Boon for the evening. The publishing giant apparently conducted a study that demonstrated that most women found it difficult to carve out…
More Moore
I received confirmation that I will be giving my presentation on Alan Moore at the conference on his work at the University of Northampton at the end of May. My topic is: Rite Here: Ritual, Performance and the Magick of Place From his first public working, The Birth Caul, Alan Moore has always had a…
UK Trip Week One: Part Two
Alright, so Friday of the first week it was off to Northampton for the Angela Carter conference. A nice bunch of folks there; right off the bat, I learned that Carter had written a lot of poetry before she became well known as a novelist, in fact she had thought that’s where she would make…
K. A. Laity 