A couple bits of news before we get to La Bava: the fabulous Dana Fredsti will be stopping by the Girl’s Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse on the 19th of this month with prizes (as if she wasn’t a gift herself). Also I managed to miss the release of Dogcast #5 which features my piece…
Category: Tom Stoppard
Friday’s Forgotten Books: Three Men in a Boat
This might be an odd choice for “forgotten”: after all it’s a classic, at least as acknowledged by humorists. But I find that the “in print” edition listed on Amazon (that gauge of what’s available) is actually a CreateSpace edition, though there’s a Tor edition from 2001. I am pleased to see that the version…
Friday’s Forgotten Books: Lord Malquist & Mr Moon
Although a bit late in the day (just got home this afternoon and had to spend some time soothing Kipper’s complaints about being abandoned for a whole day and a half), I wanted to try to get back in the habit of writing up a “forgotten” book for Patti’s round-up of titles. “Let it be…
Review: A Disappearing Number and The Real Inspector Hound
The National Theatre live broadcast of A Disappearing Number proved to be a stunning experience. A heady mix of drama, math, physics, love, romance, ritual, music, classical Indian dance and rhythms — it sounds too complicated to work, but it does. In fact, it’s kind of magical. Put together by the theatre company Complicite, this…
Publication: Sex and How to Get It
Drop by Polite Company magazine to see my humor piece, “Sex and How to Get It.” Worth a chuckle or two, I hope. Feel free to leave a comment or repost it to Twitter or Facebook. That’s how word of mouth spreads these days. Which reminds me: Kit Marlowe‘s The Big Splash can now be…
Theatre Round-Up
I’ve been lucky enough to have some great theatre outings in the last few weeks, but I’ve been short on time to talk about them. I slipped off to Massachusetts to visit Shakespeare & Co and catch both The Comedy of Errors and Richard III. The former was in the Bernstein Theatre with the troupe…
Review: The Real Thing
Wednesday I caught The Old Vic production of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, as I mentioned in a recent post. Most of you know how I am enamoured of Stoppard’s work and I had heard good things about this production. The bar was set high by the most recent production of his Arcadia, which was…
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…
UK Week 2: Mad Men and English Dogs (part one)
The second week kicked off with a bang and one of my favorite plays by one of my favorite playwrights: Tom Stoppard‘s Arcadia. I had just taught the play in my grad class in the spring, so it was fresh in my mind, particularly from our reading in the pub. I *love* the poster for…
Leeching
There’s a somewhat ridiculous scholar in Tom Stoppard’s India Ink who says, “This is why God made writers, so the rest of us can publish.” I love that quote because it speaks to an uncomfortable tendency in my academic field (and in many others, too) to feel like a kind of leech. We loot the…
K. A. Laity 