My reading at East Line Books will have to be postponed — Unikirja won’t be available as early as we’d hoped, so it will have to be scheduled for some time in November. I’ll let you know as soon as I know. I will still be at Albacon (or All-Bacon, as some people have suggested…
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Review: Ginger Geezer
I’m not actually going to write a review of the book: it’s about a fascinating artist, Vivian Stanshall, told in a journalistic manner, which in this case means a meandering although vaguely sequential narrative, without an iota of beauty or style, but one which nonetheless proves to be an enjoyable read just because it is…
Buy this book!
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New Book Store!
Always a reason to celebrate! There’s a great new book store in the area, East Line Books. The proprietor, Robyn Ringler, is just a wonderful and enthusiastic woman — and writer! You may remember her from my radio show, Prose at the Rose, where she talked about things like being Ronald Reagan’s nurse when he…
Friday is for Books
I’m packing them, Bernard Black is trying not to sell them. Why can’t I be more like Bernard? Hail Black Books, Dylan Moran, Graham Linehan, Bill Bailey and the wonderful Tamsin Greig. “Manny — splishy-splashy!”
Because I Will Forget
I read Iain [not M.] Bank’s Walking on Glass partly on the trip to Oxford, then finished it in Kalamazoo. Enjoyable — it winds three different stories together. Two strands are mostly mimetic realism (although one character seems to be given to some paranoid delusions), while the third clearly takes place in an unfamiliar realm….
Steal this Book
Well, I can’t afford it. From Fantagraphics, the latest from the wonderful Linda Medley: Castle Waiting: The “Hand Made” Special Edition. This ultra-deluxe, hand-assembled edition of the Castle Waiting graphic novel includes the following (click links for photos): • full-color archival chapter-divider bookplates printed on acid- and lignin-free 50 lb. stock with pigmented inks; the…