In the early part of this new century Jimmy Page collected and sorted through tons of official and bootleg live footage of Zeppelin stretchi...

Starting in the early sixties crime writer Donald Westlake, using the pen name Richard Stark, created the character of Parker. He's a c...

So as some sort of penance before Easter I decided to read this amazing book. When done I was struck by the similarity between it and some...

Sam Peckinpah made some pretty awful movies, particularly in the last days of his career, and he made some pretty pedestrian ones, but he al...

I'm slowly reading "The House of the Seven Gables". Slowly because, as usual, I'm detouring through the papers and magazin...

The corporation that owns Borders and Waldenbooks has decided not to carry the upcoming issue of the Council for Secular Humanism's maga...

So I just watched "King Kong" and was surprised how unbloated it felt for such a bloated movie. There are some truly amazing acti...

So illegal immigration is finally going to take center stage in American politics. I predict this will be a bloody (perhaps literally) batt...

What an odd and moving little story this is. "Billy Budd" is about a merchant sailor impressed into service on the HMS Bellipote...

So I went to see the movie this past Sunday. I have to admit that the comic I dismissed the other week is actually a paradigm of subtlety ...

Continuing the trend of beautifully rendered collections of old daily strips, Fantagraphics has started treating us to the original "De...

This collection of essays by the author of "Housekeeping" and the current "Gilead", contains defenses of Calvinism, seve...

Decent length article in the the Sunday NY Times about Moore and his relationship to Hollywood and the movies (none) made of his books. Ll...

So I dug out my old copy of this comic in preparation for the impending Wachowski Brothers' movie. Rereading it reminded how little res...

I actually dug out the Mastodon album because I'm reading Melville's "Billy Budd" right now. I figured what the heck, a ...

So I'm listening to this now. It's extreme metal with a little too much of the guttural vocals too common these days but it does r...

Something made me reread these decent childrens' fantasy books the other day. I remember loving them as a kid, liking them as a younger ...

NYPL Digital Library Go here and do a search on Staten Island. You can waste your time and look at the other boroughs, but why? You can also...

My father grew up in Yonkers in the thirties and forties. As a kid he told me about something called the "Alexander Smith Carpet Fact...

After a series of horror novels culminating with “Ghost Story”, Straub wrote “Shadowlands”, a more fantastical book about magic and illusion...