I’ve recently been reading a couple digital photography books from the library and have found The Digital Photography Book by Scott Kelby to be indispensable. I was really drawn in by the book’s subtitle “the step-by-step secrets for how to make your photos look like the pros”. The book is geared towards SLR owners but [...]
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This is an interesting interview; I guess the interviewer is some kind of jazz musician and Allan Guthrie is a current writer of hardboiled from Scotland. I will have to check him out. Covers a lot of ground in the history of hardboiled, a lot of which I’m familiar with but also some good recommendations. [...] This is a book review from the Children’s section of our website: I like Green Eggs and Ham because it is really funny. It is funny because Sam tries to force the guy to eat green eggs and ham. At the end the guy tries the green eggs and ham and when the guy tries the [...] I previously wrote about (nearly) completing my David Goodis collection. [a picture of the books is here] I decided to take a look at what it would take to get my Jim Thompson collection in similar shape since they are my two favourite hardboiled authors. Based on this bibliography, I had about 15 of his [...] I was thrilled to receive this month’s selection from Hard Case Crime earlier this week. David Goodis’ The Wounded and the Slain was published as a paperback original by Gold Medal in 1955. It is fitting that HCC is the first to reprint the novel as they clearly model themselves on Gold Medal. This extends [...] Not only is Jonathan Lethem a damn fine writer…he’s also a fan of Lawrence Lessig, alternatives to copyright and exploring innovative methods of licensing his own work. First there was the Promiscuous Materials Project which lets filmmakers and dramatists adapt some of his stories after paying a fee of one dollar. Now he’s offering the [...] I’ve been watching a lot of movies lately. Here are a few notables ones: A Scanner Darkly – I was extremely leery about this film for a number of reasons. The book it is based on is my favourite Philip K. Dick novel. The movies of the director, Richard Linklater, annoy me as often as [...] The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation is great for people with short attention spans (like me!). If you are not up for reading the full 500+ page report, this gives you the basic info in a nicely organized format. Via ebyblog Generally, I prefer hardboiled stuff from the 50s but recently, I’ve been reading a few current authors that I’ve really been enjoying: Jason Starr – Todd gave me a copy of Hard Feelings which was the first thing I read by him. I subsequently read Bust which he co-wrote with Brit Ken Bruen for Hard Case [...] This exchange got me thinking about how the way some authors interact with their readers is changing. Of course, the first question that sprang to my mind was how can libraries facilitate this new type of communication? As James suggests in his comments on this post, a One Book, One Community type forum presents an excellent [...] |
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