Recently, I’ve featured seven books on Amazon that I think make marvelous holiday gifts. Here’s a summary, with links to the features. (Also note Jeffrey Ford’s top 10, just posted on Amazon.)
I just wanted to let readers know that the daily books received posts, with photos, will return as a once-a-week Friday feature, starting this Friday. A week’s worth of books, every week. Also, the promised John Le Carre post will actually appear on Amazon–I’ll give you that link shortly. I’m also pleased to report that […]
This blog post is part of my ongoing “60 Books in 60 Days” encounter with the Penguin Great Ideas series. From mid-December to mid-February, I will read one book in the series each night and post a blog entry about it the next morning. For more on this beautifully designed series, visit Penguin’s page about […]
Penguin’s posted about the 60 in 60 thing, noting, appropriately that it’s “silly” and that someone taking on such a project might be called an “idiot”. And that I should not “slouch”. I think it would probably be a good idea for someone to start a pool on (1) if I’ll finish and (2) if […]
Dead Letter Press has just released Rhys Hughes’ volume Engelbrecht Again in a limited signed edition. It’s a handsome volume of spry and sprightly tales that tell the continuing adventures of the world’s most famous surrealist dwarf boxer. You can find more information here. Below I’ve posted part of my introduction to the volume. I […]
This blog post is part of my ongoing “60 Books in 60 Days” encounter with the Penguin Great Ideas series. From mid-December to mid-February, I will read one book in the series each night and post a blog entry about it the next morning. For more on this beautifully designed series, visit Penguin’s page about […]
Rain Taxi is one of my favorite review publications. It’s smart, beautifully designed, and has a good reputation for reviewing “literary” and “genre” work side-by-side, understanding that it’s all part of the spectrum known as “fiction”. You could do worse than subscribe. But, the main point of this post is that they’re running an auction […]
I apologize for the blatant pre-holidays sales pitch, but Neil Clarke at Wyrm Publishing has put too much work into this project for me not to do a full post on it. The limited signed/numbered hardcover Shriek: An Afterword from Wyrm is now available and shipping for the holidays. It features: – Original cover art […]
I’m sorry I can’t really feel much sympathy for those in the media angry or taken aback by the “rudeness” of the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at George W. Bush. We’re already in the process of giving him the boot. He might as well get the actual shoes, too. Torture’s pretty “rude”. Civilian […]
I’ve been fascinated to see the reaction to the Predator novel thus far. Especially on Amazon, where reaction has been all over the place. I’m gratified to see this one (below the cut), though, because it seems like they saw what I saw when writing it. Still, taking Amazon reviews as anything other than a […]