Busy with a job search, a simultaneous search for new “revenue streams” and diving back into the book on Moroccan music (time to wrap up the second) draft, I haven’t had much time to write original posts but I will continue to post items from other blogs and websites that I find of interest. Here [...]
Transgressive Women from Myth and Fairy-tale: Tales from the Velvet Chamber
Guest Post by LA Slugocki I am the project editor/writer for Tales from the Velvet Chamber: An Anthology of Revisioned Fairy-tales and Myth, A Call for Writers. The inspiration for this book comes from many different places — I’ll start with The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. For those who haven’t read the [...]
What is the future of reading?
No learned process is more firmly embedded in our culture as an agent of information transfer than reading, yet its subtle pleasures and necessary disciplines seem overwhelmed by today’s sustained orgasm of visual media. Many modern readers participate enthusiastically in the democracy of publishing, but have little patience for extended excursions into long narrative texts. [...]
Extending the reach of the graphic novel
Asterios Polyp (Pantheon), the latest graphic novel by David Mazzucchelli is garnering excellent reviews and plaudits for taking the graphic novel into more firmly literary and adult territory. AND it just won the inaugural award in the graphic novel category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize: Mazzucchelli’s monolith is a beautifully executed love story, [...]
