At HorrorDNA: Toil and Trouble Review
I reviewed Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult over at HorrorDNA. Continue reading At HorrorDNA: Toil and Trouble Review
Tag: books
Marginalia #3
An annotated discography for sound and sound art at the fringes. You could probably get all Benjamin and Adorno on these genres and ideas, but Tau keeps the critical machinery to a minimum and often approaches the pieces and artists very practically. What draws us toward or away from these sounds? What does one get … Continue reading Marginalia #3
New Review: Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #17
You can read my review of Doomed to Fail over at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading New Review: Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #17
Recent Reading Over at Lost in Arkham
A short survey of recent horror-related fiction and nonfiction is at The Terror Test. Continue reading Recent Reading Over at Lost in Arkham
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Scary Stories Treasury: Alvin Schwartz, illustrated by Stephen GammellI missed this collection of revamped urban legends and folk myths when I was a kid. I went from Godzilla in kindergarten, to the TV edit of Jaws in first grade, to Stephen King books and adaptations by second. I can only guess, but I figure my … Continue reading The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
It isn’t a glamorous thing to do, but you have to do it: Recent Reading
Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power: Sady Doyle I gulped this down in one sitting, so I’ll have to come back to it in order to write more substantially about it. It hits many of my areas of interest: Gothic literature, monsters, mythology, horror movies (the title is … Continue reading It isn’t a glamorous thing to do, but you have to do it: Recent Reading
Even if you knew the language you wouldn’t recognize the book: Italo Calvino’s post-compositional diagram for If on a winter’s night a traveler
I had wanted to start reading Italo Calvino, but wasn’t sure where to start. I found out that my wife had Invisible Cities, so I jumped in there. Cities easily won me over. Soon after everyone was telling me to read If on a winter’s night a traveler. I checked it out from the library, … Continue reading Even if you knew the language you wouldn’t recognize the book: Italo Calvino’s post-compositional diagram for If on a winter’s night a traveler
Plain Ordinary People: On Finally Reading The Outsiders
One way I disappointed students was not reading one of their favorite books. This was certainly not the only way I disappointed students, but not having read S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders was at the top of the list from the beginning of my teaching career. This proved to be particularly disappointing to one student … Continue reading Plain Ordinary People: On Finally Reading The Outsiders
Our Heart Is Restless: St Augustine’s Confessions
I wrote recently about my initial experiences with The Confessions. Finished sometime around 400 AD, it’s an early version of the memoir, particularly the confessional and spiritual quest genres, though it doesn’t look like the ones published today. If I read it again, I’m going to research current or celebrated translations. If you are a … Continue reading Our Heart Is Restless: St Augustine’s Confessions
Stephen McClurg 