Party Girls Die in Pearls: An Oxford Girl Mystery By Plum Sykes There’s a writer’s trick or trope or mode of artist being that they do when they want to explore the nooks and crannies of particular society (real or imagined). They have someone commit a crime and then they create a compelling, but outsider character to investigate the crime. It creates a structure that … Continue reading Party Girls Die In Pearls: An Oxford Girl Mystery
The Snow Queen: A Tale in Seven Stories Hans Christian Andersen Illustrations by Sanna Annukka Do most fairy tales have subtitles? (Is it fair to call Hans Christian Andersen’s work fairy tales? Everyone seems to, despite this story having nary a fairy: there’s plenty of magic, some tale telling flowers, and the devil, but no fairies.) Well, the subtitle is very accurate in this … Continue reading The Snow Queen: A Tale in Seven Stories
A Hundred Thousand Worlds Bob ProehlViking 2016 Bob Proehl is a smart guy. (And I don’t say that because as I read his book A Hundred Thousand Worlds, it became clear to me that Mr. Proehl had probably read the same indy comics, bulletin boards, and comics blogs that I did in the early 2000s). Of course, I managed to turn that experience into a … Continue reading A Hundred Thousand Worlds
What happens when a young but mediocre English poets goes broke, befriends the devil, and misplaces his wife? Comedy….lots of comedy. Continue reading The Gentleman: A Novel
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