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Avenue Victor Hugo is one of America's great used bookstores: For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston’s Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded “Best Used Bookstore” multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike. During its years on Newbury Street, Avenue Victor Hugo also played host to Fiction, Galileo, and Galaxy magazines, all published by [store owner Vincent] McCaffrey.
I'm not usually a big fan of poetry. I mean, I like some poems, but my sophistication is usually down around the "There once was a man from Nantucket..." level. But even so, I thought that this article, Poetry Magazine Caves to the Mob, which J.J. Sefton linked to last week, caught my eye: At the 1913 Armory Show in New York, Americans first saw the works of Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse. In the same year, Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” debuted in Paris. The previous year saw another major cultural event: the establishment, in Chicago, of a small monthly magazine called Poetry. Its founder, Harriet Monroe, had been exhilarated by the fresh breeze blowing across the Western world... The story this article tells is the drearily familiar one of having to repeatedly apologize to the unappeasable woke mob. My point is, for those of you who are so inclined, the entire archive of Poetry magazine, dating back in 1912, has been digitized and made available online here. You can't download the individual issues, but you can search by author and by poem.
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The first installment in the E.M. Foner 'AI Diaries' trilogy, Turing Test: Mark Ai goes to work every day as a PC repairman, but fixing computers is just a cover job. Along with his mission managing the observation team, he's attempting to fill in as a parent for a teenage neighbor, provide a good home for a dog, and pick up a little money on the side. It's a juggling act that understandably leads to breaking a few rules, but things really start spinning out of control when competing aliens arrive. Marked down to $0.00 until the end of the month. If you want to continue the series, you can follow it up with te sequel Human Test, and then the third, Magic Test, each for $3.99.
13 Since we are going to have Civil War I just bought the collected short stories of Ambrose Bierce for Kindle. $0.99 on Amazon this morning. Wild boars eating corpses? Huh. We used to pray for wild boars to eat the battlefield corpses. During WWI, the dead bodies just stayed out in no-man's land for weeks and months at a time and you could just watch them decay. Also eaten by rats, I'd bet. In fact, I have heard that was where Tolkien got the idea for the chapter in LOTR where he had Frodo and Sam hoofing it through the Dead Marshes with Gollum and seeing the dead orcs and elves from a long-ago battle down in the muck. Anyway, you can indeed get Bierce's short stories for 99 cents on Kindle. But for only a couple of dollars more, you can get everything he ever wrote, including a lot of Bierce material that has never before appeared in digital format (so they claim). Lots of illustrations with the original artwork, too. Novellas, essays, all of the short stories, poetry, newspaper articles, personal correspondence, etc. Such a deal for $2.99. What are you waiting for? ___________ 29 After watching the Bowie flick “The Man Who Fell to Earth”, I decided to read the original novel of same by Walter Tevis (1963), which I had in my teetering Death Stacks. I knew Bowie's movie was based on a book, but I don't know anything about it, so let's have a look: The Man Who Fell to Earth is the story of ...Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien disguised as a human who comes to Earth on a mission to save his people. Devastated by nuclear war, his home planet, Anthea, is no longer habitable. Newton lands in Kentucky and starts patenting Anthean technology—amassing the fortune he needs to build a spaceship that will bring the last three hundred Anthean survivors to Earth. I know guys like this. Whatever they do, they just can't get it together enough to accomplish the designated task because of their personal problems and idiosyncracies. TMWFTE is available on Kindle, too. As noted further in last week's book thread, the author, Walter Tevis, also wrote a number of other novels, two of which have been made into movies, The Hustler and The Color of Money. Oh, and look, not a movie, but he's got a novel called The Queen's Gambit about a young orphan girl who develops into a chess prodigy: When eight-year-old Beth Harmon’s parents are killed in an automobile accident, she’s placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn more—and steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament. Beth also steals some of her foster mother’s tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted. One review says that what Walter Tevis did for pool in The Hustler, he does for chess in The Queen’s Gambit. And for only $2.99. So yeah, I'll have to read this one. ___________ Moron author George Milonas recommends the work of another au thor, Jason Anspach's "Galaxy's Edge" series. Says he's read the first 9 in two weeks and there's "not a dud in the bunch." The first in the series is called Legionnaire and it describes the galaxy as A hot, stinking, dumpster fire. And most days I don’t know if the legionnaires are putting out the flames, or fanning them into an inferno. According to the author page on Amazon, the books appear to be in the $2.99-$4.99 range, so if you like military science fiction, you'll be getting a lot of bang for your buck. So to speak. ___________
Moron author J.W. Kerwin has just released his third legal thriller featuring attorney Brendan O'Brian, Dishonored Promises: New Jersey attorney Brendan O’Brian finds himself representing two grieving widows. One wants him to find out what happened to her husband, who went to work one morning and never came home. The other needs help dealing with a life insurance company that won’t pay what appears to be a perfectly legitimate claim. Jim sent me an advance copy of this book a month or two ago, and I must say, the story just hooked me on the first page and dragged me in. I mean, who would *not* want to hear the story behind a woman whose husband died in a work accident and the company cremates him and then notifies her by phone and then says goodbye as if that ended the matter? The plot involves a lot of legal wrangling in different contexts and the author gets into the nuts and bolts of all that's involved with presenting an argument before a judge and he even makes that sound exciting, which I think is no mean feat. It's one of those books you don't want to stop reading. So I very much recommend it. The Kindle edition is only $2.99. The first two novels in this series, which I've mentioned before on the book thread, Slow Death in the Fast Lane and A Stranger in My Own Hometown are also very good. ___________ So that's all for this week. As always, book thread tips, suggestions, bribes, insults, threats, ugly pants pics and moron library submissions may be sent to OregonMuse, Proprietor, AoSHQ Book Thread, at the book thread e-mail address: aoshqbookthread, followed by the 'at' sign, and then 'G' mail, and then dot cee oh emm. What have you all been reading this week? Hopefully something good, because, as you all know, life is too short to be reading lousy books. | Recent Comments
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