DISCLAIMER: This column is full of my opinions and musings; it is in no way meant to disparage – or validate – one genre over another. It is completely and utterly subjective – I am speaking only about how I react to something, not about its overall value, nor to […]
Zombie Baseball Beatdown Paolo Bacigalupi Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Release Date: September 10, 2013 ISBN 0-316-22078-7 I wonder what motivated Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Paolo Bacigalupi to write a monster creature book geared at middle school kids. Just what would have possessed the man who wrote […]
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.