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Category Archives: Writing
More Burroughs, Aleister Crowley & Jimmy Page
With William Burroughs in the literary news again these days, a mind-bending article from the June 1975 issue of Crawdaddy magazine has surfaced: When I was first asked to write an article on the Led Zeppelin group, to be based … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Music, Writing
Tagged Aleister Crowley, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, Trance, United Kingdom
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Do Bad Books Make Great Satire ?
Washington Post “Book World” fiction critic Ron Charles has outdone himself in his third video book review, this time for Ape House, the follow up to Sara Gruen’s blockbuster, Water for Elephants. While he rather delightfully trashes Gruen’s “literary” twaddle , saying it … Continue reading
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And So It Goes…
Many thanks to Perry Hall for this post: Good News For Vonnegut Fans: The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library is a public benefit, nonprofit organization championing the literary, artistic, and cultural contributions of the late writer, artist and Indiana native Kurt … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Freedom of Speech, Libraries, Museums, USA, Writing
Tagged Kurt Vonnegut
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If You Want To Help An Author…
Thanks to reader Ret Marut for this post. If you have friends or family members who have written a book: 1. Buy your friend’s book. Encourage other friends to buy the book. Go to your local library or bookstore … Continue reading
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Visions of the Apocalypse
After a summer of reading Justin Cronin’s The Passage, Margaret Atwood’s After the Flood ,Marcel Theroux’s Far North and re-reading A Canticle for Leibowitz, I was well and truly psyched for next month’s Scientific American “ Apocalit” features. All things … Continue reading
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Real Locations – Imaginary Crimes
Whether it be the London of Sherlock Holmes or the Ystad of the Swedish Wallander, Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco or Donna Leon’s Venice, the settings chosen by crime fiction authors have helped those writers to bring their fictional investigators … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Maps, Photography, Tourism, USA, Writing
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Do It In Public
Thanks to Brian Heater from Read Comics In Public Day for this post Like so many great things in this world, Read Comics in Public Day has its roots in a joke. I don’t remember the exact wording, but it … Continue reading
Will You Help A Brother (Therapist) Out?
Please check out this post from the innovative travel psychologist and travel writer Dr. Michael Brein and then support his new project on Kickstarter. THE TRAVEL PSYCHOLOGIST E-BOOK SERIES You wouldn’t believe the incredible stories people have told me about … Continue reading
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I’m Not Waiting For The Paperback, This Time
The first dictionary of slang, out of print for 300 years, is being published by the Bodleian Library, Oxford from a rare copy unearthed in its collections.Originally entitled A New Dictionary of Terms, Ancient and Modern, of the Canting Crew, its … Continue reading
Read>Recycle>Repeat
Many thanks to Buku Sarkar at ReLitNY for this article. The program Read, Recycle, Repeat Literature In Transit ReLIT NY (previously Choose What You Read NY) is a donation and recycling program that gives out free books to New Yorkers. You … Continue reading
