Incoming Notes and Status Update
Incoming: Chuck Palahniuk, Guy Gavriel Kay, Tim Powers Redux 2010, BLUE OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL: David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Dan Basta, Bruckner Chase, Ed Lyman and Lou Douros
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09-01-10 : Tim Pratt Finds 'Sympathy for the Devil'
"...Hell for the company..."
It's always about character, especially when it comes to storytelling. So if you're going to tell a story, why not start with the best, the original, the first and last Evil Overlord, ol' Scratch himself, Satan? And why haven't there been more collections like Tim Pratt's 'Sympathy fore the Devil' (Night Shade Books ; August 2010 ; $15.95)? Could it be that perhaps a certain character does not want his character known? After all, it is often said that the best trick the Devil ever played was to convince folks that he did not exist.
Well, of course exists, and of course he wears man fictional faces. Leave it to Tim Pratt to gather (I almost mis-typed "father," and perhaps that equally applicable here) a very eclectic and wonderful selection of stories that hail from all parts of the literary timeline.
Recent Commentary
• Peter S. Beagle Reveals 'The Secret History of Fantasy' : Telling Lies for a Living
• David Doubilet Captures 'Water Light Time' : Painting with Pixels
• Vendela Vida 'The Lovers' : Reading and Revelation
• Jeff VanderMeer and 'The Third Bear' : Absurd Is as Absurd Does
• Mary Roach is 'Packing for Mars' : Non Fiction Genre Fiction
• Gary Shteyngart Tells a 'Super Sad True Love Story' : Retro-Prescience
• David Mitchell and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet : The World is Ever the World
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 Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror
S. T. Joshi
Mario Guslandi reads the the latest S.T. Joshi Cthulhu Mythos anthology and finds much to like.
Review Archive
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08-31-10:
A 2010 Interview with Jean-Michel Cousteau
"We need to change. And we can."
—Jean-Michel Cousteau
Memories beget legends. Those images in our minds that will not go away become to us the basis for our personal mythos. I'm of a generation that grew up on the California coast, and part of my upbringing was spending a lot of time on the water.
And on those rare occasions when my parents would allow me to watch television, there were few allowed shows. Ed Sullivan, pre-homogenization Walt Disney, and of course, since we were water people, Jacques Cousteau. It wasn't until I arrived in a future I could not have dreamed of that I actually met a legend, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Jacques' son, and had the chance to talk with him about the past, the present and the future.
09-01-10:
A 2010 Interview with Dan Basta at the Blue Ocean Film Festival
"Experiential learning is the way we learn best."
—Dan Basta
I live on Monterey Bay, about three blocks from the beach. When you walk out on the beach, and I do every single morning, you can see the entire pristine bay — and gain an instant appreciation for the Marine Sanctuary designation that keeps it that way. Dan Basta is the man in charge of our Marine Sactuaries; the Director of the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Ocean Service. And you can bet I wanted to talk to him about how he does what he does. Here's an instance where the impact is immediate.
Recent Podcasts
•A 2010 Interview with Jean-Michel Cousteau : "We need to change. And we can."
•A 2010 Interview With David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes : "Everything people have always feared about photography comes true underwater."
•A Live Reading and Interview with Vendela Vida At Bookshop Santa Cruz : "...there was an owl that came into this place we were renting one day..."
•A 2010 Interview with Mary Roach : "There was a second hoax about a shuttle mission..."
•A 2010 Interview with David Mitchell : "The periodic table of the human heart is still the same now as it was then."
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