All October long, Comic Book Resources is featuring the scariest comic books of all-time, as suggested by readers. Here is an archive of all the comics featured so far.
Scariest Comic Books
The Rooster is Nigh
At The Morning News, Rooster hosts Kevin Guilfoile and John Warner lay out "The Pre-Game Primer" for the Tournament of Books. The action kicks off tomorrow.
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Winesburg, Ohio Online
The University of Virginia Library (last mentioned for its William Faulkner recordings) has made the text of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio available online in its entirety.
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Imagining My Way In
Recommended (Heartbreaking) Reading: On a father's suicide and a son's journey to learn a bit about the life of the man he hardly even knew.
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You can file me under Ishmael.
Have you ever wanted to convert a book into a patent application? Well now you can.
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Spalding Gray’s Secrets
Nell Casay, editor of The Journals of Spalding Gray, takes readers through the tortured life of the famous actor, playwright, and monologuist.
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Kafka’s Century
Kafka's The Metamorphosis has officially hit the century mark, and over at The Guardian Richard T. Kelly celebrates with "100 thoughts for 100 years." Pair with our own Matt Seidel's thoughts on rereading Kafka's masterpiece, which you can find here.
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The Written World
The Written World is a five part radio series put together by Melyvn Bragg as part of the In Our Time BBC radio project. The programs look at the history of written word, and how it has shaped our intellectual history.
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Numerology
You may have heard that Joshua Cohen has a new book out this week. The Harper’s columnist’s fourth novel tells the story of a ghostwriter producing a tech wizard’s memoirs. In BOMB Magazine, Dan Duray sits down with Cohen, who talks about the book, the Bay Area and the cultural production of autism. Related: Johannes Lichtman on Cohen’s Four New Messages.
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