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Yesterday as I was about to cross the street a guy with a big cardboard box asked me, “Would you like a free book?” I hesitated because I wasn’t sure what it would be, then said, “Sure.” And he handed me a copy of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species. I looked at it and [...]
The thinness of what we call “civilization” is a recurring theme of Margaret Atwood’s work, and Wilderness Tips is a collection of short stories exploring this theme from several different perspectives. A woman mails her removed tumor to her ex-lover’s wife, going against what would be the civilized thing to do, while in another story [...]
For some reason Cadbury bars, which are, I think, as synonymous with chocolate in Britain as Hershey bars are here, are kind of hard to find around here. About the only time I see anything made by Cadbury is either in the “imports” section of the grocery or around Easter when they start selling crème [...]
When I was in grade school there was a woman who worked in the lunchroom. She wasn’t a lunch lady in the sense that she didn’t fill the tray compartments with stewed prunes and reconstituted potatoes and processed meatloaf by-product. She sat out in the lunchroom itself and it was her job to break up fights, [...]
Food is a recurring motif in the work of William Sleator. From House of Stairs to Parasite Pig (sequel to Interstellar Pig) where food is central, to The Boy Who Couldn’t Die (in which a young man almost gives away his secret by grabbing a hot dish with his hands), The Last Universe (in which [...]
Even though Ray Bradbury’s description of Venus as a planet covered with dense jungle where the rain is constant was wildly inaccurate—it does rain on Venus, and sometimes even snow, but it’s sulfuric acid, not water—the rain we’ve had here made me think about some of his stories lately. Yesterday morning I woke up to [...]
Dark Horse Comics, publishers of, among others, the Sin City and Hellboy comics, is now republishing a classic comic book called Creepy, one which, ironically, was first published in 1964. That’s ten years after the infamous hearings held by the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency–hearings which were spurred by the “excesses” of 1950’s comic [...]
A book about werewolves isn’t an unusual thing. Even a book about werewolves forming gangs–deadly gangs–and roaming Los Angeles wouldn’t be that unusual, but Toby Barlow’s debut novel Sharp Teeth takes it to a whole new level. It’s in poetic free verse, the white space across the pages being an open pit for the imagination [...]
In contemporary society we often take a very lighthearted look at folk beliefs, particularly spirits and “little people”, even though at one time people believed in and took mythical creatures very seriously. The evolution of the term pixie is an excellent example of this. The Oxford English Dictionary is fuzzy on the term’s origins. Like [...]
Every seventy-six years Halley’s comet returns, about every ninety minutes Old Faithful erupts, and, although its frequency isn’t nearly so predictable, you can pretty much bet that sooner or later someone’s going to come up with another theory about Jack The Ripper’s identity. There are over one-hundred suspects on the list now, but I think [...] |
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