A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
A book about art produced by mentally ill psychiatric patients gave the Nazis cover first to eliminate the art, then to move on to the artists.
The book uses Grand Guignol techniques to literalize the process of tearing oneself open in the act of artistic creation.
Despite reduced foot traffic due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, the company reported healthy earnings in the 13 weeks ending October 2.
The Stanford University professor surveys the literary landscape in the shadow of the online giant.
In this suite of sixteen uncanny tales, memory and loss are manifest in the spectres that haunt various characters.
The deal, worth a reported $2.175 billion USD, has already been the subject of opposition among many players inside and outside the publishing industry.
For the author, the titular condition involves those moments when one is just trying to live one’s life and is suddenly reminded of one’s race.
“The function of it was the pleasure of the work for readers, and the value to writers was to show them how good they had to get,” says longtime series editor John Metcalf.
A volume of cultural criticism about Vampira and a new memoir by the creator of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark show how much, and how little, the two have in common.
Horror doesn’t gel with those who’ve propped up CanLit respectability – that is, chiefly cishet, nondisabled white people, Pottle writes.