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Although I went to a couple of summer camps, and even worked as a camp counselor one year–well, it was really more like outdoor daycare–I feel like I never really went to real summer camp. It wasn’t like the summer camps I read about in books like The Winnemah Spirit by Carolyn Lane or E.B. […]
It’s amazing how adaptable people are. As recently as 1991, when Sue Thomas’s novel Correspondence was published, online commerce was still an idea of the future. While there were a few people using the Internet, it wasn’t as commonplace as it is now. That’s what makes the novel so prescient, at the same time that […]
The headline, “How bad was J.M. Barrie?” screams sensationalism, and, although she does try to be balanced, Justine Picardie doesn’t seem too comfortable with Barrie the person. She opens with a “curse” Barrie “scrawled across the pages of one of his last notebooks”, “May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me”, and she […]
This is an incredible deal: buy a first edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and get Douglas Adams’s typewriter along with it. According to the seller, it is “as certain as can be that Adams wrote his most famous work ‘The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy’ on this Hermes Standard 8″. And […]
At least part of the fascination of cave paintings is the fact that, even though they may be anywhere from 30,000 to 40,000 years old, they were painted by people who were just like us. They were the same species, homo sapiens, so it’s entirely possible that, if we could travel back in time, or […]
This morning on the radio I heard that a Colorado (the specific location wasn’t given) teenager named Robert Hibbs was, in fact, a troll, standing at a bridge and demanding a dollar payment from anyone who wanted to cross. There was no word on whether he was bearded or wearing a loincloth, although […]
It’s surprising to me to hear Sam Shepard talk about Samuel Beckett as an icon and hero, but in a recent article in New York Magazine, Shepard said, “I don’t want to keep beating a dead horse, but Beckett turned my head around about thinking about theater. It doesn’t have to be realistic, it doesn’t […]
On July 2nd, 1789, a man in the Bastille leaned out his window and yelled to passersby that the prisoners were being murdered and that the people should rise up and charge the building. Twelve days later the people did exactly that, destroying the infamous prison and starting the French Revolution. The prisoner who yelled […]
I’ve been a fan of Steve Almond’s work since I read an excerpt from Candyfreak in Utne Reader. Combining both disturbing confessions about his candy addiction (the first sentence is “The author has eaten a piece of candy every single day of his entire life”, although it’s rarely been just one piece) and serious reporting […]
I distinctly remember the first time I heard this odd-looking gray-haired guy speak. He had a rough, gravelly voice, and he was talking about his Rice Krispies saying, “Snap, crackle, f–k him!” And I thought I would never stop laughing. I don’t remember how old I was exactly–eleven or twelve, but it didn’t matter. I […] |
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