Patti Abbott has been hosting Friday's Forgotten Books for five years now...and this week is continuing to feature past reviews from some of her guest reviewers...I thought I'd take a look at some of my less-circulated reviews, from the early years...I didn't expect to find quite so many...
Some early FFB lists:
June 20th, 2008
July 2, 2010
November 5th, 2010 and in slightly differing form
and some of my reviews that often have inspired very interesting comments, but were seen by relatively few beyond the commenters...
Robert Bloch: Pleasant Dreams and Blood Runs Cold
Reginald Bretnor, editor: The Craft of Science Fiction
Herschel Brickell, editor: Prize Stories 1949: The O. Henry Awards.
Barry Malzberg wrote me this morning, to note that the formerly February-issued volume of the O. Henry Awards will be delayed till September and issued only as an Ebook this year...he predicts the series will be gone before it makes it to a centennial volume in 2019.
Michael Chabon: The Final Solution
Les Daniels: Living in Fear: A History of Horror in the Mass Media
Thomas Dardis, editor: Beyond
Eric Jong: Seducing the Demon
Jules Feiffer: The Explainers
Walt Kelly: Impollutable Pogo
Laura Kightlinger: Quick Shots of False Hope
Damon Knight: The Futurians; A for Anything; The Dark Side (editor); In Deep
William Kotzwinkle: The Exile
Tom Kromer: Waiting for Nothing
Leo Margulies, editor (possibly): The Unexpected [stories from Dorothy McIlwraith's issues of Weird Tales]
Jayne Anne Phillips: Fast Lanes
Katha Pollitt: Learning to Drive
Theodore Sturgeon: Argyll
sadly more relevant given the recent death of editor/publisher Paul Williams
Theodore Sturgeon (with Don Ward): Sturgeon's West
James Thurber: The Years with Ross
various editors: Anthologies from Amazing;
various editors: 10 influential magazines
various editors: The Masses: Echoes of Revolt and The Smart Set
various editors: some fiction magazines (non-virtual/web)
Edward Wellen: Goldbrick
Kate Wilhelm: Welcome, Chaos; Death Qualified
for young readers week: Eleanor Clymer: My Brother Stevie; Robert Silverberg, editor: Voyagers in Time; Robert Arthur, editor: Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum; poetry anthologies
adding in some music and such:
Len Lyons: 101 Best Jazz Albums and Alex Cox: Total Television; The Zombies: Zombie Heaven and Fairport Convention; White Teeth (the tv adaptation) and Community
(well, the Zombies item has a booklet and the Zadie Smith adaptation has literary roots...)
first all-music post
and a bonus:
Lawrence Block on Donald Westlake
Barry Malzberg on his own work
and:
Janet Fox: 1940-2009
Algis Budrys: 1931-2008
Some early FFB lists:
June 20th, 2008
July 2, 2010
November 5th, 2010 and in slightly differing form
and some of my reviews that often have inspired very interesting comments, but were seen by relatively few beyond the commenters...
Robert Bloch: Pleasant Dreams and Blood Runs Cold
Reginald Bretnor, editor: The Craft of Science Fiction
Herschel Brickell, editor: Prize Stories 1949: The O. Henry Awards.
Barry Malzberg wrote me this morning, to note that the formerly February-issued volume of the O. Henry Awards will be delayed till September and issued only as an Ebook this year...he predicts the series will be gone before it makes it to a centennial volume in 2019.
Michael Chabon: The Final Solution
Les Daniels: Living in Fear: A History of Horror in the Mass Media
Thomas Dardis, editor: Beyond
Eric Jong: Seducing the Demon
Jules Feiffer: The Explainers
Walt Kelly: Impollutable Pogo
Laura Kightlinger: Quick Shots of False Hope
Damon Knight: The Futurians; A for Anything; The Dark Side (editor); In Deep
William Kotzwinkle: The Exile
Tom Kromer: Waiting for Nothing
Leo Margulies, editor (possibly): The Unexpected [stories from Dorothy McIlwraith's issues of Weird Tales]
Jayne Anne Phillips: Fast Lanes
Katha Pollitt: Learning to Drive
Theodore Sturgeon: Argyll
sadly more relevant given the recent death of editor/publisher Paul Williams
Theodore Sturgeon (with Don Ward): Sturgeon's West
James Thurber: The Years with Ross
various editors: Anthologies from Amazing;
various editors: 10 influential magazines
various editors: The Masses: Echoes of Revolt and The Smart Set
various editors: some fiction magazines (non-virtual/web)
Edward Wellen: Goldbrick
Kate Wilhelm: Welcome, Chaos; Death Qualified
for young readers week: Eleanor Clymer: My Brother Stevie; Robert Silverberg, editor: Voyagers in Time; Robert Arthur, editor: Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum; poetry anthologies
adding in some music and such:
Len Lyons: 101 Best Jazz Albums and Alex Cox: Total Television; The Zombies: Zombie Heaven and Fairport Convention; White Teeth (the tv adaptation) and Community
(well, the Zombies item has a booklet and the Zadie Smith adaptation has literary roots...)
first all-music post
and a bonus:
Lawrence Block on Donald Westlake
Barry Malzberg on his own work
and:
Janet Fox: 1940-2009
Algis Budrys: 1931-2008