Tag Archives: Books

Suddenly Some Links Drifted By

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Wesley

Here are some of the links I’ve made note of during the weeks this blog has lain fallow: I’d love to read a collected edition of this comic strip. Mahendra Singh has written a series of blog posts analyzing the … Continue reading →

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Raskolnikov, C’est Nous

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Wesley

Compulsive readers get used to finding unexpected connections between books. I also make random connections while wasting time on the internet. Sometimes, like now, this leads to a blog post’s worth of dubious, rambling speculation and crazy theories. A few … Continue reading →

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Brains in Vats

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Wesley

Sometimes a book seems to have dropped into your lap from an alternate universe. In the spectacular cases, the authors’ worldviews are located on the other side of the moon from consensus reality. Some write nonfiction from wildly eccentric bibliographies, … Continue reading →

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My Best of 2010, Part One

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Wesley

As I too often note on this blog, I haven’t written much lately. I could claim I haven’t been writing because haven’t had much to say, but the truth is that I haven’t had much to say because I haven’t … Continue reading →

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Links to Things

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Wesley

I’m still not writing much because my mind is still acting like this a lot. Here are some people who are more interesting than I’ve been during the past month: At Comics Comics, an interview with a French cartoonist named … Continue reading →

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A Couple of Links

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Wesley

I’ve been doing very little writing lately (and obviously I won’t manage ten posts this month) but I wanted to check in with a couple of interesting links: Gary Westfahl on Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001 series, and Abigail Nussbaum on … Continue reading →

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M. R. James, “Wailing Well”

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Wesley

Any classic ghost story anthology worth the tree-pulping will have something by M. R. James. Usually it’s “Casting the Runes,” “Count Magnus,” or “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad.” It’s almost never “Wailing Well.” “Wailing Well” is … Continue reading →

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The Uninvited Face

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Wesley

Casting around for ideas to get myself blogging again, I thought I might bow to October’s zeitgeist and devote the month to the horror genre–or at least to the part of the genre I like: the part that’s uncanny, not … Continue reading →

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Links to Things

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Wesley

I thought it might be time to do another links post. So: Lance Mannion argues that one thing all great novels have in common—even such mournful volumes as Madame Bovary and Lord Jim—is a sense of humor: If a part … Continue reading →

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In which I attempt to read what everybody else is reading, and wind up depressed and horrified.

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Wesley

I don’t watch much TV. I don’t listen to top 40 radio. I’m not enticed by most of what ends up on the New York Times bestseller list. Almost invariably, my first hints that a new pop culture phenomenon is … Continue reading →

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