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Mike Scott’s Adventures of a Waterboy

Posted on 6th June 2022 by Gary Whitehouse

The moment I opened this book about Mike Scott and started reading it was when I first realized that it was a memoir. And if you’ve read many musicians’ autobiographies, you’ll know why my heart sank. “Oh, great, another slog … Continue reading →

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Alison Bechdel’s The Secret to Superhuman Strength

Posted on 6th May 2022 by Gary Whitehouse

I’ve loved Alison Bechdel’s work from the first page of her award winning graphic memoir Fun Home. I know I’m not alone in my enthusiasm for her work, but I just want to get out there that I connect with … Continue reading →

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Thomas M. Disch’s The Word of God, or, Holy Writ Rewritten

Posted on 19th February 2017 by Robert

Thomas M. Disch was best known in some circles as one of the New Wave generation of science fiction writers. In others, he was known as an accomplished poet, while in still others as an incisive and iconoclastic critic. “Iconoclast” … Continue reading →

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Ernest Hemingway’s Under Kilimanjaro [Robert W. Lewis and Robert E. Fleming, eds.]

Posted on 4th February 2017 by Robert

The name “Kilimanjaro” calls up our most vivid images of Africa, the great mountain rising above the teeming savannas as Gregory Peck struggles up its flanks. That is, indeed, an image that comes to us from Ernest Hemingway, by way … Continue reading →

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