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One of the things I remember from my time in school learning to be a librarian was something the professor in the Reference Services class I took during my first semester said: never apologize for what you read. This is just one of those quotes that is so simple and yet so true. Why should you […]Read More
by Carrie Bailey You might have heard about the movie coming out next month from Disney titled Oz: The Great and Powerful. It’s another film based on Frank L. Baum’s series about that little girl from Kansas with the dog and a propensity toward meeting creatures that are missing at least one vital body organ. […]Read More
by Jas Faulkner “How are things?” I asked Sam as I flipped through pictures of Dore engravings. “Things are great,” said Sam, “Could not be better. Have I told you my wife is a marketing genius?” “Do tell. I take it there’s a good story about to happen.” Of course there was. And as many […]Read More
by Jas Faulkner Ed Cho* and I are visiting one of the stores that uses his designs. The sound system goes quiet for a second and then a familiar piano intro plays. A woman who has been browsing pauses and then upon hearing Aretha Franklin’s first lines: Though you don’t call any more I sit […]Read More
I am the first to admit, I don’t understand the publishing industry. I don’t get the way they will publish a title, it does quite well, so they publish the next, and then stop. And not only do they stop, they refuse to publish either of the first two in paperback, which means the audience […]Read More
by Jas Faulkner The remaining members of the media who are not getting the vapors over Manti Te’o’s pretend girlfriend are finding true gold in the race to the stygian levels of athletic malfeasance still being run by Lance Armstrong. Watching Armstrong try to be likeable on Oprah was like watching two komodo dragons reenact […]Read More
by Jas Faulkner I got the email from Sam and Tab shortly before the first of the month: Can you come to Memphis? It’s a coven meeting and you’re invited! Why yes, that is coded speech. Sam usually sends her invitations to coven gatherings via owl or white mice in a pumpkin. But […]Read More
A promo advertising a film about to be released called Hansel and Gretel, has me shaking my head and asking why now? Why all the fairy tale inspired, interpreted, twisted, films and TV now? They’ve been around for centuries and other than Disney, pretty much ignored. Besides Snow White, Disney has a tendency to lighten […]Read More
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