Posts Tagged ‘wild transitions’
Interview: Tim Powers
Photo by Beth Gwinn for Locus Online Science fiction and fantasy author Tim Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his novels Last Call and Declare , and he won the Philip K. Dick Award for The Anubis Gates. Specializing in "secret histories," Powers bases his works on historical events and biographies of famous people, with the [...]
Review: A Whale’s Tale
Combining fiction with zoological information, in A Whale's Tale, Daniel S. Janik explores the undersea world of the Pacific Humpback whale. The book is described on the back as a "Read-Aloud, Color-Me-Please Book." It follows a particular whale from his birth until he begins his own family. The idea for this book is a noble one: to [...]
Review: Chansons of a Chinaman
As he writes in the poem "The Calm Clam," poet Changming Yuan yearns "to be a voice empowered / For all around me." In his collection, Chansons of a Chinaman, he strives "To translate my loud pain / Into a muted pearl," to reconcile his Chinese ancestry and his American life. To do so, Yuan, whose work has appeared in Wild Violet, draws from [...]
Review: A Tiara for the Twentieth Century
Write what is hardest to say, my poetry instructor in grad school used to urge us, and Suzanne Richardson Harvey does precisely that. In A Tiara for the Twentieth Century: The Collected Poems of Suzanne Richardson Harvey, the poet tackles subjects ranging from motherhood, family relationships and aging to bulimia, AIDS and [...]
Review: Idol Musings
If you like humor, real-life stories or just plain good writing, you will enjoy Idol Musings: Selected Writings from an Online Writing Competition edited by Sophie N. Childs. Idol Musings includes some of the best entries from LJ Idol, an annual online contest for Live Journal modeled after American Idol. Entrants come from a variety of [...]
Review: Dig Up My Gold
By the time anyone has reached 70 to 80 years of age, he or she will have accumulated a wealth of stories. At some point, a friend or family member is likely to suggest, "You ought to write a book." Of all those people with interesting stories, only about 10 percent probably have anything worth writing about, and only a fraction of them are [...]
Review: Genuine Men
On the surface, Genuine Men: Journeys in Stories and Stills sounds like a promising project. Photographer Nancy Bruno set out to depict the lives of men from a variety of backgrounds and ages, and to share their views on what it means to be a real man. Unfortunately, for a book centered around photography, the portraits fail to [...]
Review: Halfling’s Court
While much of modern fantasy makes use of similar tropes and settings, The Halfling's Court by Danielle Ackley-McPhail takes fantasy to a new level: blending the familiar with the unexpected, timelessness with modernity and— believe it or not — faeries with a biker gang. Ackley-McPhail first introduced this world through two stories she [...]
Cat Stanley Final Photographs
Show poster mock-ups of missing adventures Final Photographs is from the series SHADOWMASTER: Traveling Medicine Show presents Dr. Mysterium, the faith healer SHE, adventuress Cat Stanley, with performer Dman Dread and Sideshow Kids. The series entertains the human feeling that someone else is there, a numinous [...]
