Monthly Archives: January 2011

How was San Francisco/San Mateo?

Posted on January 27, 2011 by shullamuth

Sunday Night: Cities are, as far as I’m concerned, their music. I don’t want cheap plastic souvenirs, t-shirts, or coffee cups emblazoned with local landmarks. I desire sense memories: Jameson on my palate, my body twisting and moving in time to … Continue reading →

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Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox, and Unusual; Edited by Loren Rhoads

Posted on January 21, 2011 by shullamuth

“The slight breeze blew the smell of the baking cadaver from the dock into the room’s open windows(127).” There’s cool serendipity in picking up a collection of essays and discovering that most of the authors are from the city you’re three … Continue reading →

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The Empty Family by Colm Toibin

Posted on January 20, 2011 by shullamuth

A short story collection so beautiful, one quote is not enough: “My eye, solitary, filled with its own history, is desperate to evade, erase, forget; it is watching now, watching fiercely, like a scientist looking for a cure, deciding for … Continue reading →

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Irregular Creatures by Chuck Wendig

Posted on January 19, 2011 by shullamuth

For your first ebook, Chuck Wendig’s Irregular Creatures is not a bad place to start. Readers of his blog, who are familiar with Wendig’s particular blend of whimsy and irreverent obscenity, will be happy to see that style carry into his fiction. The light … Continue reading →

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Collusion by Stuart Neville

Posted on January 17, 2011 by shullamuth

Sequel to the previously mentioned Ghosts of Belfast. My hope is that if newly wed Neville has not yet finished writing the third book in this series, his wife leverages the nightly marital embrace against the daily page count. I … Continue reading →

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Stand adaptations: American Nightmares & Soul Survivors; by Aguirre-Sacasa, Perkins, and Martin

Posted on January 17, 2011 by shullamuth
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Captain Trips, adapted from Stephen King’s The Stand; by Aguirre-Sacasa, Perkins, and Martin

Posted on January 14, 2011 by shullamuth

OMFG. Lately, offline,  I’ve done nothing but rant about what lazy complacent bastards film makers are (hey, Tron: Legacy will do that to a girl), but if I ever write a 1,200 page novel, I want Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa writing the … Continue reading →

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How It Ends: From You to the Universe by Chris Impey

Posted on January 13, 2011 by shullamuth

Impey, an astronomer, is a bit pedantic when it comes to biology, but he’s brilliantly poetic when talking about stars and rocks, so forgiveness is easy. Besides, the mental arguments I had with him generated a bunch of short story ideas. Favorite … Continue reading →

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Glitz by Elmore Leonard, and Garth Ennis’ Preacher: Ancient History

Posted on January 9, 2011 by shullamuth

Glitz Fun Quote: “…I ran outside in my underwear, got my gun, I’m coming back in a drunk is standing there on the sidewalk looking at me, weaving. You know what he said?”…”He said, ‘You should a bet your underwear. … Continue reading →

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Rebel Hearts by Kevin Toolis (Non-Fiction)

Posted on January 7, 2011 by shullamuth

Toolis’ chronicle of grim defiance is a perfect book. I didn’t say THE perfect, and I’m not calling it flawless, but, for me, a text that deepens my experience of familiar stories and songs, fills me with the desire to learn more, … Continue reading →

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