Over the weekend, the Los Angeles Review of Books published a fairly wild essay by Miguel Esteban who, at the tender age of 14, commissioned a now-famous essay on race in science fiction from Octavia Butler. The whole piece is worth a read (the gall of teenage boys! the grace of Octavia!) but... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-07-26 13:40:52 UTC ]
A heart-warming love letter to books and bookshops, by an amenable fellow turned antisocial old misanthrope“I was in here two years ago and you had a book by Roger Penrose. Do you know what happened to it?” Shaun Bythell – owner of the Book Shop in Wigtown, Galloway – has 100,000 books in stock,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-08-24 10:58:38 UTC ]
At the tender age of 10, John Wiley Jr. was taken by his mother to see Gone with the Wind. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oh boy, do I have a contest for you long-winded Facebookers and personal bloggers. It's called, "Your Life: The Reader's Digest Version." The venerable magazine is willing to shell out $25,000 if you can keep The Story of You to a crisp and compelling 150 words (words, not charactersthis isn't... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2011-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]