Today on Project Gutenberg we have... Willie Mouse by Alta Tabor This, as you probably expect from the title, is a children's picture book. A Google search can't tell me anything about what year it was published or any trivia on the author. I'm not even sure if the title is supposed to be Willie … Continue reading Today on Project Gutenberg #26
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Today on Project Gutenberg, we have... Sonny by Rick Raphael With a title as short and nondescript as "Sonny," it's all too easy to overlook this short story at first. But the transcriber's note at the beginning of the PG text tells us that this story was originally published in the April 1963 issue of … Continue reading Today on Project Gutenberg #25
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Today on Project Gutenberg we have... Kashmir by Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, illustrated by Major E. Molyneux This is an unusual one. We have a non-fiction book today, an entry into the time-honored genre of travel literature. The subject, in case you couldn't tell from the title, is the region of Kashmir. Where and what … Continue reading Today on Project Gutenberg #24
Horror Is Universal: “Son of Frankenstein” (1939)
After our cheerful little trip through the land of German Expressionism, we're back in familiar territory and ready to move forward. Today's film is the first in what we're going to call the second part of Universal Horror's Classic Era, which as you may recall lasts from about 1930 to 1960. Why are there multiple … Continue reading Horror Is Universal: “Son of Frankenstein” (1939)
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Today on Project Gutenberg we have... The Film of Fear by Frederic Arnold Kummer About a hundred years ago, just after Sherlock Holmes and just before Hercule Poirot, there was a literary detective called Richard Duvall. You probably haven't heard of him. I certainly hadn't. The author, Frederic Arnold Kummer, wrote a few different stories … Continue reading Today on Project Gutenberg #23
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Today on Project Gutenberg, we have... Heretics and Heresies by Robert Green Ingersoll Well, you can't go wrong with a title like that. It sounds like the best/weirdest Dungeons & Dragons spin-off ever. Okay, so today's book never gets that wild. But it's interesting nonetheless, and its author is an especially interesting guy. Robert Green … Continue reading Today on Project Gutenberg #22
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Today on Project Gutenberg we have... Pleasures of the Telescope by Garrett P. Serviss This book comes to us all the way from 1901. It presents itself as "An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and A Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers." The author, Garrett Putnam Serviss, was actually … Continue reading Today on Project Gutenberg #21
A Brief and Boredom-Induced Guide to German Expressionist Films, Part 2
NOTE: Some of the films I'll look at in this article deal with content and themes that might be upsetting to some readers/viewers, including the deaths of children (M) and a scene of sexual assault (Variety). I won't dwell too long on such topics, but there are a few cases where I couldn't properly discuss … Continue reading A Brief and Boredom-Induced Guide to German Expressionist Films, Part 2
A Brief and Boredom-Induced Guide to German Expressionist Films, Part 1
Soooooo. Coronavirus. Quarantine. All that good stuff. Needless to say, the current global crisis is upending everyone's usual schedule. I myself was doing pretty well for once. But then, as though I'd wished on a monkey's paw for some extra free time, it all went up in a neat little puff of smoke. Hooray. But … Continue reading A Brief and Boredom-Induced Guide to German Expressionist Films, Part 1
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Today on Project Gutenberg, we have... The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 159 by various authors The Strand! One of the most famous literary magazines of its days, mainly due to one certain author and his most enduring creation. For those not in the know, The Strand was where Arthur Conan Doyle published his Sherlock … Continue reading Today on Project Gutenberg #20
