Recommended Reading: “Bitter Night in the Country” by Hayden Saunier.
“Requisite dog bark. Far off.”
The Audio Revolution
Audiobooks: the next revolution in publishing? The Year in Reading entries from Julia Fierro and Michelle Huneven, both of whom won the “The Gutenberg Award for Time-Saving Technology” in our yearly round-up, may point to “yes”.
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Monsters and Wild Things
At the Oxford University Press blog, Professor Stephen T. Asma considers the place of Where The Wild Things Are in our culture’s larger obsession with monsters (zombies, wolfmen, vampires, etc.).
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Tar Pit Blues
Recommended Reading: Alexander Aciman on Canto 22 of Dante’s Inferno. (His essay is part of a series I’ve written about before.)
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