Comicsphere: Invisible Inc by Brendan McGinley & Tomas Aira

With some stories it is the art that arrives with you first; with some it is the words – neither of these is a bad thing, they just speak of different techniques perhaps, but with Invisible Inc from Brendan McGinley and Tomas Aira they’ve hit their stride from the first page and created a great [...]

Turn The Page: Jafsie And John Henry by David Mamet

From one book of essays to another; from one book which I found essential to another which I found to be the total opposite, and it pains to me say that. I like David Mamet – I like his films and I like the plays that I have read; I’ve enjoyed a couple of interviews [...]

Turn The Page: The War Against Cliche by Martin Amis

When you read a book of essays you are hoping to get an insight into the subjects under discussion that you may not have arrived at by yourself; or you are looking for an opinion on something that you are not knowledgeable about yourself – you seek to educate yourself; or perhaps you want an [...]

Turn The Page: Writing The Australian Crawl by William Stafford

I will admit that this book was a hard one to read for me but I wanted to persist with it because it was recommended to me by a friend and, despite the fact that I don’t agree with a lot of the things said, I am glad that I read it.
I found myself carrying [...]

Turn The Page: Spook Country by William Gibson

There is something that struck me about Gibson, reading this latest novel, and that was a quality of his prose that I had not noticed before. The scenes that he presents are like those slides of specimens that scientists use and it is as if he allows your eye to pierce through all the events [...]

Turn The Page: Catcher In The Rye by J D Salinger

The Catcher In The Rye is one of those books that seems to suffer from being part of the landscape. I had forgotten, until a recent re-reading, how vital a voice this book has. There are a few terms which might give away the fact that it was not written in the present day but [...]

Indie Bookshelf

Check out this great resource for independent writers and fans of independent literature. Have an independently produced book, cd or any other kind of media? Then this is the place you need to be.
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84 Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff

It seems fitting to me somehow that I bought my copy of this book second hand. I had seen the film first and had remembered it as a charming film that was one of those stories that no bibliophile or romantic could fail to fall in love with; well, unless they had a heart of [...]

Turn The Page: William S Burroughs

I wanted to celebrate the books which I have in my William Burroughs collection so I found this site and hunted down all the covers of the books I actually own. Someone on a forum recently asked who rewired my head and the guy who did it first and keeps doing it was Burroughs. A [...]

comicsphere: freakangels friday

When the true crescendo comes in this first arc it is going to be interesting to see how the characters bring what we have seen of each of their personalities to bear on the situation. We saw how handy Jack was with a knife last week, we saw Sirkka and KK purge Alice, we saw [...]