Elizabeth Shaw: My God, we were so wrong . . . I grew up in a family of horror film lovers, and scary book readers. I was a kid, age ten, when Jaws hit the big screen, 13 when Alien came out in May of 1979, and the junior high cafeteria filled with chatter of…
The young man has never been afraid of hats before. In fact, he’s recently found himself admiring them. The hats on the heads of the men in this town have actually seemed to him quite marvelous. So it is strange that he should now be so frightened–so incredibly frightened–of this one. — from Ben Loory’s The…
Okay, I’ll stop with these two happy Kipling photos and carry on with my recommendation 😉 I searched for the anthology The Best American Short Stories 2011, a series that comes out each Fall with a different guest Editor. This year, Series Editor, Heidi Pitlor, chose Geraldine Brooks, who was born in Australia, grew up in…
Here is a new list of five authors to discover, and two to grow on! The evening mist is back over the pond. The air is colder. Fall into Winter waterborne storms are brewing off the Pacific Northwest coastline, and these maelstroms usually hit us hard in November and December. It’s way past time to…
Okay, I resisted going to the new Woody Allen movie. A lot of you did the same. Every weekend I need to be convinced to go to the movies. This wooing has to be so much better at grabbing people away from busy lives, exquisite home theaters with state of the art sound and vision, or…
Another great summer movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes comes out of nowhere and starts people talking about meddling with nature, Tom Felton, that meanie Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter films, and his turn as a brutish animal handler and how well he masters an American accent, and the astounding sight of…