Veronika is a pretty, intelligent young woman who works in a library in Slovenia. She isn’t particularly unhappy, but she…
Emerald City Comic Con 2011!
After completing an internship at comic and graphic novel publisher Fantagraphic Books, my interest for comics has only increased. This…
Tools of Change: The Publishing Pie, February 15, 2011 (via Margaret Atwood: Year of the Flood)
This is a really great talk from author Margaret Atwood. Enjoy. After a blisteringly energy-packed sets-hair-on-fire Book Camp 2, the…
The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters by Timothy Schaffert
After reading a short story by Timothy Schaffert that I loved I wanted to try some of his longer fiction.…
Alexandra Kleeman is One Lucky Chick
I don’t typically write posts about individual authors, but an article I read online this week on thedailycamera.com caught my…
The Awful Possibilities by Christian TeBordo
The only “awful possibility” is that you pick this book up and read it. Ok, now that’s out of the…
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
*warning: contains spoilers Cloud Atlas, written by the author of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green,…
Books I Gave Up On
Everyone has them. The books gathering dust on shelves, tossed underneath beds, or accumulating various marks of damage at the…
Flight: Volume One
Flipping through the pages of a volume of Flight is like holding a rainbow of joy in your hands. It’s…
Buddy Does Seattle by Peter Bagge
Buddy Does Seattle is a compilation of the Buddy Bradley stories from “Hate” Comics #1-15, years 1990-1994 published by Fantagraphics…
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