Ken Shakin's new book is out in paperback and digital formats. Thrillerotica. The thriller meets erotica in a marriage made in hell. www.thrillerotica.com

Author E. Lynn Harris died this past Thursday at age 54.

BOOKS

Invisible Life Just As I Am And This Too Shall Pass If This World Were Mine Abide With Me Not A Day Goes By Money Can't Buy Me Love Any Way the Wind Blows A Love Of My Own What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted I Say a Little Prayer Just Too Good To Be True Basketball Jones

1999 Interview with Phyllis Gotlieb

Novels:

* 1964. Sunburst
* 1969. Why Should I Have all the grief?
* 1976. O Master Caliban!
* 1980. A Judgement of Dragons
* 1982. Emperor, Swords, Pentacles
* 1985. The Kingdom of the Cats
* 1989. Heart of Red Iron
* 1998. Flesh and Gold
* 1999. Violent Stars
* 2002. Mindworlds
* 2007. Birthstone

Short Fiction:

* 1959. A Grain of Manhood
* 1959. Phantom Foot
* 1960. A Bone to Pick
* 1960. No End of Time
* 1961. Gingerbread Boy
* 1964. Valedictory
* 1967. Planetoid Idiot
* 1968. Rogue's Gambit
* 1969. The Dirty Old Men of Maxsec
* 1972. Son of the Morning
* 1973. Mother Lode
* 1974. The Military Hospital
* 1977. Sunday's Child
* 1979. The King's Dogs
* 1981. Blue Apes
* 1981. Tauf Aleph
* 1982. The Newest Profession
* 1990. The Other Eye
* 1992. We Can't Go On Meeting Like This
* 1993. Among You
* 1997. End City

Collections:

* 1964. Within the Zodiac
* 1969. Ordinary, Moving
* 1972. Son of the Morning and Other Stories
* 1974. Doctor Umlaut's Earthly Kingdom
* 1978. The Works: Collected poems
* 1995. Blue Apes
* 2002. Red Blood, Black Ink, White Paper: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2001

Anthologies:

* 1986. Tesseracts 2

Poems:

* 1975. ms & mr frankenstein
* 1978. was/man
* 1994. Geffen & Ravna

This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.

A beautiful stop-motion animation for 4th Estate Publishers 25th Anniversary. Produced by Apt Studio.

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Wikipedia: "The Yellow Book, published in London from 1894 to 1897 by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, later by John Lane alone, and edited by the American Henry Harland, was a quarterly literary periodical (priced at 5s.) that lent its name to the "Yellow" 1890s.

It was a leading journal of the British 1890s; to some degree associated with Aestheticism and Decadence, the magazine contained a wide range of literary and artistic genres, poetry, short stories, essays, book illustrations, portraits, and reproductions of paintings. Aubrey Beardsley was its first art editor, and he has been credited with the idea of the yellow cover, with its association with French fiction of the period. He obtained works by such artists as Charles Conder, William Rothenstein, John Singer Sargent, Walter Sickert, and Philip Wilson Steer. "

All 13 volumes are available to download from www.archive.org in either djvu or pdf formats. Wikipedia has direct links.

Also on archive.org: The later work of Aubrey Beardsley

Telegraph: Which book are you most embarrassed to admit that you have never read?

ABC has created a nice new mini-site for all the literary references on "Lost". There are "lending only" copies of most of those books at the bookshop (...plus lots of copies of those books by Stephen King that Ben likes.)

Washington Post blog about the books on "Lost".

Things you can with they call 2.0: Zoomii.com - The "Real" Online Bookstore

Don't know where I found this....

Something to do this weekend!

Whenever "Grandma gets laid"...

England is a long way away, Hyacinth

Story and video over at Monocle: "Less is more is the concept for Bildschöne Bücher, a small bookshop in Berlin that has grown out of the highly successful website 25books.com . "

A librarian fighting evildoers! How could we resist this one: "Follow the story of Rex Libris, the tough-as-nails Head Librarian at Middleton Public Library, and his unending struggle against the forces of darkness. Wearing his distinctive, super thick bottle glasses and armed with an arsenal of powerful weapons, he strikes fear into recalcitrant borrowers, and can take on virtually any foe‹from noisy, loitering zombies to fleeing alien warlords who refuse to pay their late fees."

Check out the strip over here!

I have seen the future of writing!

Here's a great idea for anyone who loves books and doesn't have enough apartment space or a Kindle: a "secret staircase" made of English oak

Includes recordings made between 1971 and 1987. Books excerpted on the box set include JUNKY, THE SOFT MACHINE, THE WILD BOYS, NOVA EXPRESS, CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT and NAKED LUNCH. THE BEST OF WILLIAM BURROUGHS was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Boxed Recording Package.

Torrent at Greylodge

"New ideas pass through three periods: it can't be done, it probably can be done, but it's not worth doing, and I knew it was a good idea all along!"

• Arthur C. Clarke

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