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1989 anthologies: TALES BY MOONLIGHT II edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson...
The following reviews reprinted, with minimal editing, from a longer column of mine in the third, January 1990, issue of the magazine (in*sit), edited and published by Mark Hand, Nancy Ryan, Donna...
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A. J. Wright: Alabama JonesAnne Billson: Eva Green;Gwyneth PaltrowBhob Stewart: The Voices of Marvel; Popeye from a number of angles; Candid Camera; Daniel Clowes on Wilson; and moreThe Big Broadcast:...
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FFB: ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: STORIES TO BE READ WITH THE DOOR LOCKED...
This was the first "Hitchcock" anthology I owned a copy of, and I've mentioned it on the blog on occasion. It was the fourth edited by Harold Q. Masur, who began editing the Alfred Hitchcock Presents:...
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A small revelation as this bad year draws to a close...
My previous Friday Books post is a bit of an expansion of an older one, dealing as it does with a vitally important book my mother bought for me, as the most desired part of my membership quartet in...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club in a new year...
Natalie Pesin asked on FaceBook yesterday morning for five songs that summed our existential condition. These touched on those around me as much as myself, frankly. Then again, I had just fallen down...
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FFB/MS: THE LONG GOODBYE, a 1972 draft of the screenplay by Leigh Brackett;...
This copy of a 1972 draft of Leigh Brackett's film adaptation of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye is missing some key pages (not simply page 21 as annotated on the title page) but nonetheless is a...
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some crime fiction magazines on the newsstands for August 1964
All indices and images courtesy The FictionMags Index at Galactic Central.If one was to go to a theoretical newsstand that somehow had all the US, UK and Australian crime-fiction magazines in late...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club on Monday: Waters Rising in Northern Cali edition
Northern Californian Sarah Kishler asks on FaceBook: What are your favorite rain songs? Wind songs? So, I dropped a few responses on her post, coming late to it and so not repeating suggestions such as...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club on Monday: Waters Rising in Northern Cali edition (part 2)
[continued from previous post for ease of loading...]...my brother, James Eric Mason, had answered earlier, and had been reminded of another Nina Simone recording, even if he might've thought of David...
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Friday (the 13th) Forgotten Books: the links to the reviews, 13 January 2017
It's a troubled time at FFB, with various afflictions and even an occasional bit of good news mixed in for a number of contributors to the weekly go-round, including Patti Abbott's connectivity being...
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FFB: THE BEST FROM FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, FOURTH SERIES edited by...
I'm unboxing my books from storage, in a haphazard way, which is already inspiring further queries from Alice as to why we need all these books. My query in riposte, as to why we need all the gaming...
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FFB: THE DEVIL HIS DUE edited by Douglas Hill (Hart-Davis 1967; Avon 1969);...
Two sort of hybridized compilations this week, sparked in part by my continuing to unbox my collection of magazines, books, correspondence and other items from storage, and also by the heavy toll this...
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FFB: BETTER THAN ONE by Kate Wilhelm and Damon Knight (MCFI/NESFA Press...
"...And you know two heads are better than one..." --Annie RossBetter Than One was the only officially collaborative book that Damon Knight and Kate Wilhelm published during his life and their long...
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FFB: THE EUREKA YEARS: Boucher and McComas's MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE...
This remarkable book was barely published by Bantam Books, in 1982 probably still the most successful paperback house in the world, haphazardly distributed, the only printing of the only edition...
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FFB/S: evil children week: THE LITTLE MONSTERS et seq. edited by Roger Elwood...
There are all sorts of delightful stories about evil children, as well as merely mischievous children (standard and psychopathic and supernatural); FFB organizer Patti Abbott, mother of a prosecuting...
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Friday's Forgotten Books: the links to the reviews: 24 February 2017
This week, and next, I'm subbing for Patti Abbott, taking a break...we have a few not so obscure titles this week, as frequently, but also no few now-obscure titles by not so obscure writers, or even...
View ArticleBig Jazz Bands Writ Large: Saturday Music Club
Carla Bley/Michael Mantler Orchestra: Escalator Over the HillAnthony Braxton Orchestra: Creative Orchestra Music 1976Gunther Schuller Orchestra: Jazz AbstractionsThelonious Monk Big Band and Quartet:...
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Love is a battlefield? Saturday Music Club
In memory of Margaret A. Roche Annie Ross: "Love for Sale"Lahna Turner: "Recycle"(mildly NSFW)Kasey Lansdale: "Sorry Ain't Enough"Smart Went Crazy: "Sugar in Your Gas Tank" (mildly NSFW)Maggie and...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books (and magazines and stories): the links to the...
Patti Abbott should be picking up the gathering of links duty again next Friday, though as always it's a pleasure to put these lists together (if a time-consuming one). This week, Hammett's The Thin...
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