Author: Fiona Bayrock (on JOMB) Illustrator: Carolyn Conahan (on JOMB) Published: 2009 Charlesbridge (on JOMB) ISBN: 1570916705 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Quick! What’s used for communication, transportation, self defence, sound-dampening, warmth, entertainment and hatching and doesn’t cost ...

I’m going to force the interwebs to take a momentary break from continuing to go nuts over Watchmen this weekend and take a look at a couple of documentaries below the radar… While it might be a bit reductionist to do so (as there exist many exceptions to the rules of nonfiction filmmaking), I t...

Your writing is coming along nicely. It's time to think about a publisher. Now if you know a bit about these things, you may have thought that with a non-fiction book - unlike a novel of course - you tend to pitch an idea first before writing. Theoretically so. And once you're established yo...

Well, here’s something you don’t see every day, even in the world of melodramatic pulp magazine reprints: an Adventure House replica of a 1930s true-crime magazine. It’s called, coincidentally enough, TRUE CRIME MAGAZINE, from November 1936. Ah, 1936 — that was just one year after the deaths...

So I spent the weekend immersing myself in cultural activities of various kind. Yesterday, while stuck at home trying to recover from the annoying cold that just doesn't seem to go away, I made it an Italian Day. I turned on my beloved Andrea Bocelli CDs, (yes, he's a fellow lawyer!), while eating I...

All you guys are on the NOTIFYLIST, right? Because it'd be a TOTAL SHAME if I ACTUALLY HAD SOMETHING TO SAY FOR REALZ and was thinking about SHARING IT WITH ALL LIST MEMBERS and you miss it because YOUR ASS AIN'T ON THE LIST. (That was subtle enough, right?)......

All you guys are on the NOTIFYLIST, right? Because it'd be a TOTAL SHAME if I ACTUALLY HAD SOMETHING TO SAY FOR REALZ and was thinking about SHARING IT WITH ALL LIST MEMBERS and you miss it because YOUR ASS AIN'T ON THE LIST. (That was subtle enough, right?)......

One need not be a fan of Asian cartoons — filmed or printed — to pick up SCHOOLGIRL MILKY CRISIS: ADVENTURES IN THE ANIME AND MANGA TRADE, but I think you’d be bored otherwise. For this eyebrow-raising-titled collection, journalist Jonathan Clements has rounded up nearly 20 years’ wo...

Regular readers of this site don’t need another reminder of Richard Matheson’s greatness, but one’s certainly not going to kill you, either. THE TWILIGHT AND OTHER ZONES: THE DARK WORLDS OF RICHARD MATHESON is a tribute to one of fantastic fiction’s all-time greatest practiti...

The first thing a reader should know is that LOSING MY RELIGION: HOW I LOST MY FAITH REPORTING ON RELIGION IN AMERICA — AND FOUND UNEXPECTED PEACE is not anti-anything. In fact, William Lobdell, a former journalist for the LOS ANGELES TIMES, purposely carved out a niche for himself as a religion ...