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Recently Banned Literature (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
California Classics The Creative Literature of the Golden State by Lawrence Clark Powell The Ward Ritchie Press Los Angeles (1971) [click to enlarge] Works and authors discussed: Anza’s California Expeditions , by Herbert E. Bolton; The Journey of the Flame , by Walter Nordhoff; Death Valley in ’49 , by William L. Manly; The Land of Little Rain , by Mary Austin; The Wonders of the Colorado...
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The Little Professor (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
To quote myself: "When the paintings move, so should you." (Moving photographs should also be avoided at all costs.) All Horror Masters files are PDFs. Gertrude Atherton, "The Bell in the Fog" (Literary Gothic) E. F. Benson, "The Cat" (Horror...
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mirabile dictu (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
The Literary City Based on a similar map of St Petersburg by Vera Evstafieva and Andrew Biliter (**), this one places city-relevant quotes on a San Francisco map, where possible on the district the quote relates to. San Francisco Bay, cable cars, the Mission, the Tenderloin District and Chinatown are all name-checked in this map, which quotes [...]
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geo2web.com (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word “Frisco,” which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars. - Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, 1872 While the self-proclaimed Norton I, a.k.a. Joshua A. Norton...
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Away With Words (Free subscription) | 20/07/2009
I'm crazy about this map: It's the cover of the book-review section in yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle; it was created by Ian Huebert, "loosely inspired by one of St. Petersburg, Russia, by Vera Evstafieva and Andrew Biliter." Not only are the colors and calligraphy delightful and the quotations well chosen,...
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Gumbo (Free subscription) | 21/04/2009
"The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery."-- Gertrude Atherton
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QuasarDragon (Free subscription) | 29/01/2009
A few gems for today. E-Fiction At Everyday Weirdness "The Difficulties of Writing a Novel (in a Zeppelin Fortress)" by Jens Rushing. "Currently, there is a scurrilous and deleterious vein pulsing in popular thought, a vein that declares the gentleman’s profession of novel-writing an easy one indeed—simply, as the late Douglas Adams said, the matter of getting a hundred thousand...
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Grasping For The Wind (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
Juno Books - publisher of some really great fiction with powerful female protagonists - is offering a free pdf download of some classic ghost stories from some notable authors. The contents are: Let Loose, Mary Cholmondeley (1890) The Striding-Place, Gertrude Atherton (1896) The Lost Ghost. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1903) Kerfol, Edith Wharton (1916) Spunk, Zora Neale Hurston (1925) Its worth a download...
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