Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday. Obituaries and tributes are legion, but I want to point out this brief passage from an unnamed writer at Shelf Awareness, a bookseller industry newsletter: "In our house, Vonnegut remains a legend for once inspiring our engineer brother, who has rarely read fiction unless it was assigned to him by a … Continue reading Kurt Vonnegut Remembered
Number One Ladies Unite!
The redoutable Mma "Precious" Ramotswe may claim to be "just a tiny person in Africa," but to her legions of fans, she's a smiling force of nature, solving all the neighborhood's problems--from witchcraft to philandering spouses. Ramotswe returns next week in the eighth installment in Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series The … Continue reading Number One Ladies Unite!
Monstrous
Question: Who wrote Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus? Answer: According to John Lauritsen, in his forthcoming book The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein (to be published May 1), the answer is Percy Bysse Shelley. Oh. Even before its publication, the book is generating a lot of verbage. Camille Paglia uses the book as a stick with … Continue reading Monstrous
