The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente My rating: 3 of 5 stars A breezy, wry look at the life of a comic-book artist in…
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The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente My rating: 3 of 5 stars A breezy, wry look at the life of a comic-book artist in…
Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine Ever wonder what went on behind the scenes at Rolling Stone? Though…
With the announcement of a new Doc Savage movie starring Dwayne Johnson, is the thirties pulp character heading for a resurgence?
Looking back at the Looking for Mr. Goodbar movie In a recent post, I wrote about Judith Rossner‘s Looking for Mr. Goodbar. Reading the 1975 bestseller was…
Like myself, Bif Naked was raised in Winnipeg and moved to Vancouver in the early nineties. Unlike me, she’s been successful. Ba dum tsh! I…
Coming in at nearly 500 pages, A Guide for the Perplexed is enough Werner Herzog for even the most ardent fan of the German (he…
Movies #2 and 3 in my 10 Days of Leonard mission.
John Updike’s last in the Rabbit series packs as much punch today as it did 23 years ago.
Vancouver band the Be Good Tanyas make an appearance in House of Holes.
An excerpt of an interview with Michael Chabon, author of Telegraph Avenue.