A City Dreaming Daniel Polansky Regan Arts Release Date: October 4, 2016 ISBN 978-1-68245-038-3 I knew nothing of author Daniel Polansky when, on the recommendation from a friend, I picked up a copy of his novel Low Town. It turns out I enjoyed that book so much that I sought […]
Contrariwise is a cool site. It houses some of the best and, okay, let’s be honest, some of the lamest literary tattoos fellow bibliophiles have gotten. What do you think of the following, LitStackers? Would you ever brave the needle and brand your body with the words of your favorite […]
If you’re still holding on to the idea of librarians being meek little old ladies with thick glasses and frayed buns pinned to the back of their heads, then, you, friend, clearly haven’t visited a library lately. We love this post from THP that discusses the very cool things the The […]
Ink Damien Walters Samhain Publishing ISBN-10: 161921072X A tattoo can be a work of art…or a curse. The fearsome griffin inked on Jason’s arm looks real enough to climb off and take flight. Jason thinks his new tattoo is perfect. Until he wakes up one night to find his arm […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.