Category Archives: Books

Ari Berk and Brian Froud’s Goblins

Goblins begins with a disclaimer: THE PUBLISHER CAN ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY WHATSOEVER FOR ANY PROBLEMS ARISING FROM THE PURCHASE OR CASUAL PERUSAL OF THIS WORK. This is important. There are things in this book that you really don’t want to … Continue reading

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Dave Zimmer’s 4 Way Street: The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Reader

Synergy. It’s a word that could have been invented with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in mind. It can be  loosely defined as “the whole being greater than the sum of its parts,” and that definition fits CSNY to a … Continue reading

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K. J. Bishop’s The Etched City

A young woman rides into a dying near-ghost town on the frontier of Copper Country, tethers her mount and walks into the only open establishment, a bar. A card game is in progress. She recognizes one of the players but … Continue reading

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Jim Irvin and Colin McLear, editors’ The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion

Trying to fill out your CD collection of reissued gems from the 1960s and 1970s? Wondering which Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley albums are classics? Spent the ’90s listening to heavy metal and wonder what else you missed? Trying to … Continue reading

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Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light

No’am Newman wrote this review. I first came across the strangely named Roger Zelazny in 1973-4, when I borrowed a friend’s copy of “The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame,” which is composed of short stories published in the pre-Nebula era. … Continue reading

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Jessica Warner’s Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason

The consumption of alcoholic beverages is nearly as old as civilization itself.  Alcohol has played a major role in the history and folklore of every society. Jessica Warner makes a persuasive case in Craze that the so-called gin craze in … Continue reading

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David W. Maurer’s Kentucky Moonshine and Col. Joe Nickell’s The Kentucky Mint Julep

Kentucky Moonshine “They call him the king of the mountain A Blue Ridge businessman He’s an independent contractor Doin’ the best that he can.” — King of the Mountain, Southern Culture on the Skids The late David W. Maurer, a … Continue reading

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Shel Silverstein’s Lafcadio: the Lion Who Shot Back, A Giraffe and a Half, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and Falling Up

“I never planned to write or draw for kids. It was Tomi Ungerer, a friend of mine, who insisted … practically dragged me, kicking and screaming, into [editor] Ursula Nordstrom’s office. And she convinced me that Tomi was right, I … Continue reading

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Patrick Faas’s Around the Roman Table, and Mary Ella Milham’s Platina: On Right Pleasure and Good Health

Faith J. Cormier wrote this review. These two recent books both attempt to make ancient Roman cuisine (and incidentally its culture) accessible to modern readers. They will appeal to lovers of historical fantasy by filling in the background details of … Continue reading

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Larry Kane’s Ticket To Ride

Larry Kane indeed got a ticket to ride. He was the only American journalist in The Beatles’ official press group on their groundbreaking 1964 U.S. tour. The tour changed the way rock ‘n’ roll concerts were played, it changed a … Continue reading

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