Monday, November 30, 2009

Discount Primrose (an Abbott challenge vignette)

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Patti Abbott challenged the assembled to write a vignette about WalMart. A sleepy weekend didn't push me in one of the three directions...
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Friday, November 27, 2009

Friday's "Forgotten" Books: GOLDBRICK by Edward Wellen (THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, November 1978)

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Goldbrick by Edward Wellen was an unusual inclusion in the November, 1978, issue of F&SF , for at least two reasons. Most obviously, it...
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Lawrence Block on Donald Westlake

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Block notes that Donald Westlake tried to sell some "modern relationship" short stories in the mid 1960s, to no avail...rather sim...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Television that mattered to me...

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A number of television series, and even a few one-offs (or One Time Onlies as at least one clangorous publication officially dubs them) have...
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Friday's "Forgotten" Books: ELLERY QUEEN'S ANTHOLOGY, SHORT STORY INTERNATIONAL, MAGAZINE OF HORROR, and other reprint magazines/"bookazines"

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There are so many magazines that have done interesting things in being devoted to reprints from other sources...these three are among those ...
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Friday, November 13, 2009

Friday's "Forgotten" Books: LIVING IN FEAR: A HISTORY OF HORROR IN THE MASS MEDIA by Les Daniels (Scribner's, 1975)

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from a 1995 interview with Daniels for Tabula Rasa : Kyla Ward for TR: Just touching on the other non-fiction book, Fear -- Les Daniels: A...
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