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 In an interview for Studio 360, Neil Gaiman tells a story of how, in 1990 or 1991, he was at the Daily Telegraph Christmas party, and ended up talking to the newspaper’s literary editor,
I know I asked, “Are zombies finished?” but that was before picking up The Serpent And The Rainbow by Wade Davis. The Wes Craven film of the same name was based–loosely based–on Davis’s book, and not nearly as frightening. An ethnobotanist, Davis set out to find the “zombi poison” of Haiti, a rumored drug that, if it [...]
The word ”punk” has a long and, in spite of its current, cool connotation, not very illustrious history, having meant in older times (among other things) a prostitute, or a young man kept as a submissive by an older man. Kinda makes you wonder, doesn’t it? A less familiar word, but an appropriate one for this [...]
Haven’t you noticed a kind of madness in my eyes?
There’s something about the works of H.P. Lovecraft that makes them compelling. Sure, his critics will point out that he wrote mostly “pulp” works, that they were overwritten because he was being paid by the word, but, as he once said in a letter to August Derleth, ”I have to write what’s in me at the [...]
According to Freudians, werewolves represent the id, our deepest, darkest, most untamed selves, the selfish, dangerous child in all of us. And yet this is a misguided view of wolves, who have a distinct pack structure and who, even when they’re roaming alone, aren’t completely uncontrolled. It’s a misguided view of animals in general, in [...]
Say the name “Jeffrey Dahmer†and most people get a cold chill down their spine. Say the name “Hannibal Lecter†and most people will smile, some will laugh, and a few might even suck their teeth. Because one’s real and one’s fictional there’s an easy kind of disconnection. We can romanticize Lecter, we can even [...]
This week (September 29th-October 6th) is the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week. It’s unfortunate but true that there are still places where some books can’t be read, and still people everywhere who want to ban books. Three years ago MobyLives published a small news item about PABBIS (Parents Against Bad Books In Schools). As [...]
It’s subtitled “a biography”, and it’s supposedly about Vita Sackville-West, but Virginia Woolf’s Orlando reads, instead, like a long, bizarre fairy tale. It’s the story of a young man who, in Chapter Three, becomes a young woman, who falls in love, has his heart broken (but not hers), travels, lives with gypsies, skates on the Thames during [...]
If there is anything special about this event, it lies in the extreme disproportion between Hirst’s expected prices and his actual talent. Hirst is basically a pirate, and his skill is shown by the way in which he has managed to bluff so many art-related people, from museum personnel such as Tate’s Nicholas Serota to [...] |
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