Category: Entertainment
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Book Review Site : FREE list of emails — who will review your book?
Sometimes we have really dense posts here and sometimes we give you book review site after book review site. It’s a list today, in a document, complete with contact information of every book review site I know about. Or at least the non-Goodreads, non-Bookriot, non-NYT Book Review sites. All the bloggers who will consider you?…
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LJ Cohen — Derelict
As I said in FC Shultz’s Rose Weapon review, I’m often the sort of person who feels incessantly indebted to folks partly from my deep well of gratitude and partly from promises I’ve made, even if inadvertently. I tend to keep them, but I often take years. That includes a promise I made to LJ…
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Traditional Haiku : A Western Perspective
Many writers today present Haiku as free verse, covering a myriad of subjects. Many readers, myself included, enjoy these verses. However, I feel there is greater gentleness and artistic challenge in traditional Haiku. Traditional Haiku, which originated in Japan, is recognized as unrhymed verse of seventeen syllables. Steeped in Japanese culture and traditional nuances, Haiku…
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl — a Defense
Nathan Rabin, film critic and cultural agnostic, coined the phrase “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” in 2007. It’s grown in popularity enough that the Nabokovian satirist and aspiring Russian Train Baron Patrick Rothfuss has this to say about himself: So folks — at least certain folks residing in Wisconsin who read The A.V. Club — are…
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RL Stevenson “Kidnapped”
From May to July in 1886, RL Stevenson published a boys’s novel Kidnapped in the magazine Young Folks. Everyone from Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel cited it as an influence. It’s a delightful little novel by RL Stevenson. I only know him through Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. (A novel I need to review,…
