Thursday, November 29, 2007
The venerable Weird Tales magazine is legendary as the first outlet for some of the key figures of 20th Century fantastic literature including H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Ray Bradbury.
But Weird Tales also featured the work of two of the key figures in the early development of fantastic art: Virgil Finlay and Margaret [...]
Monday, November 26, 2007
I’d like to take a moment to give a shout-out to my childhood pal Michael Hind who came by for a visit this past weekend. Michael is a comic book artist and ESL teacher who lives with his lovely family in Montreal. We spent the weekend scouting books, discussing comics, playing video games and going [...]
Friday, November 16, 2007
The new Bookforum has a great review by Melanie Rehak of Gillian Riley’s Oxford Companion to Italian Food, which makes me simultaneously drool and reach for my wallet in a pure Pavlovian response.
Cooking is my favourite hobby and for years I’ve bought good cookbooks and read them almost like novels. My early favourites were books by [...]
Guardian Unlimited books has posted an article today on the results of a rereading survey.
Other than being, honestly, shocked that The Da Vinci Code even hits the list, I’m a little surprised that 43% of people form a judgement about a book in the first chapter! One of the primary reasons I have for rereading [...]
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Here is a hilariously over-the-top rant about Book TV (via Bookninja) that is well worth a read. While we can probably all agree that there is much that is risible about the program; that for the “…sake of literacy in the
US, Book TV must be taken off the air…” is, perhaps not yet universally accepted. [...]
Reading Copy, the AbeBooks.com blog, recently posted a link to a wonderful gallery of end papers hosted by Nancy Stahl.
The end papers collected here are fascinating and lead to all kinds of imaginative speculation about the books they come from. In fact, this gallery got me thinking about book decoration in general.
There is a long history [...]
