Legends of lost cities have long inspired the imaginations of poets and the curiosity of explorers. Journalist John Lloyd Stephens was fortunate to find real-life lost cities while pioneering Mayan ...archeology in the early 1800s. Examples of exploration for lost cities real and mythical are detailed.
I am thankful that the unique essays of Joanna Russ have been gathered within a single volume. To Write like a Woman, encompassing work authored between 1972 and 1990, includes a review and letters ...in addition to the essays. Russ approaches such topics as science fiction aesthetics, lesbian identity, battles between the sexes, and horror stories in relation to modern Gothic heroines' doings. She focuses upon such authors as Willa Cather, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, H. P. Lovecraft, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Her titles range from the direct ("On Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley" and "AMOR VINCIT FOEMINAM: The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction") to the provocative ("What Can A Heroine Do? Or Why Women Can't Write" and "To Write`like a Woman': Transformations of Identity in the Work of Willa Cather") to the hilarious ("Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic").
For nearly a century, a formidable presence has cast its shadow over horror publishing. As protean as it is pervasive, it has insinuated itself into virtually all aspects of the genre's publishing ...platform: trade publishing, specialty press, comics and graphic novels, role-playing game scenarios, movie novelizations, audiobooks, Web zines, and now e-books. It's the spirit--or, if you will, the shade--of H.P. Lovecraft, and every decade it looms larger and darker.
The 2013 Listen-Up Awards Boretz, Adam
The Publishers weekly,
01/2014, Letnik:
261, Številka:
1
Magazine Article
Man Made Boy by Jon Skovron, read by the author (Listening Library) Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong by Joyce Carol Oates, read by Donna Postel, Luci Christian, Chris Patton, and Tamara ...Marston (HighBridge Audio) Heartburn by Nora Ephron, read by Meryl Streep (Random House Audio) The Kill Room by Jeffery Deaver, read by James Snyder, January LaVoy, and Edoardo Ballerini (Hachette Audio) Close My Eyes by Sophie McKenzie, read by Marisa Calin (Macmillan Audio) Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan, read by Ari Fliakos (Macmillan Audio) The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud, read by Cassandra Campbell (Random House Audio) The Tell-Tale Start: The Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe by Gordon McAlpine, read by Arte Johnson (Listening Library) The Diviners by Libba Bray, read by January LaVoy (Listening Library) Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection by Don Roff, read by Stephen R. Thorne (AudioGo) â~...Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin, read by Bobby Cannavale (Simon & Schuster Audio) PW said: "Narrator Bobby Cannavale delivers a stellar reading, his gritty bass tone drawing in listeners and his driving delivery keeping them enthralled until the very end. Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight by M.E. Thomas, read by Bernadette Sullivan (Random House Audio) Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal by Melanie Warner, read by Ann Marie Lee (Tantor Media) Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr., read by Dion Graham (Mission Audio) In the Eye of the Storm: Jesus Knows How You Feel by Max Lucado, read by Ben Holland (Oasis Audio) Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou, read by the author (Random House Audio) Pete Seeger: The Storm King by Pete Seeger, read by the author (Hachette Audio) The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh, read by John Lee (Tantor Media) Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday! by Penn Jillette, read by the author (Brilliance Audio) America Again: Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't by Stephen Colbert, read by the author, with Tim Meadows and Jordin Ruderban (Hachette Audio) I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life by Joel Osteen, read by the author (Hachette Audio) Afterlife: What You Really Want to Know About Heaven and the Hereafter by Hank Hanegraaff, read by John Gauger (Oasis Audio) â~...The Tell-Tale Start by Gordon McAlpine, read by Arte Johnson (Listening Library) PW said: "Johnson's delivery is stellar and his character interpretations colorful and endlessly creative. Man Made Boy by Jon Skovron, read by the author (Listening Library) The Diviners by Libba Bray, read by January LaVoy (Listening Library) Treasure Hunters by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein, read by Bryan Kennedy (Hachette Audio) Hold Fast by Blue Balliett, read by Bahni Turpin (Scholastic Audiobooks) In a Glass Grimmly by Adam Gidwitz, read by Jonny Heller (Penguin Audio) The Program by Suzanne Young, read by Joy Osmanski (Simon & Schuster Audio) Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell, read by Rebecca Lowman and Sunil Malhotra (Listening Library) The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente, read by S.J. Tucker (Brilliance Audio) The Wells Bequest: A Companion to the Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman, read by Johnny Heller (Penguin Audio) One Year in Coal Harbor by Polly Horvath, read by Kathleen McInerney (Listening Library) â~...Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray, read by Jonathan Keeble (Naxos AudioBooks) PW said: "Reading in a rich, accented voice and making use of understated narration, Keeble immediately transports listeners back to the 18th century.
Ed Park discussed the "invisible library" or parts of books, such as titles or passages, that exist only within the pages of an actual novel. He offers examples, such as those found in Steve Hely's ..."How I Became a Famous Novelist."
