Book Review: Gary Lucas, Touched By Grace: My Time With Jeff Buckley
By J Howell Gary Lucas duly notes early on in Touched By Grace that the book is neither a biography of Jeff Buckley nor Lucas himself. It is, however, a remarkable peek from Lucas’s perspective of a...
View ArticleBook Review: A Christmas Story: Behind The Scenes Of A Holiday Classic
By Chelsea Spear A Christmas Story seems like one of those films that was always part of our cultural heritage. Every Christmas, TBS broadcasts it in a 24-hour loop, phrases like “you’ll shoot your eye...
View ArticleBook Review: Kim Gordon, Girl In A Band: A Memoir
By Noreen Sobczyk The world of rock music (and music journalism) is one big boys club. And it’s no surprise that the title of Kim Gordon’s memoir, Girl in a Band, is partly in reference to the...
View ArticleBook Review: Monster Mash: The Creepy, Kooky Monster Craze in America 1957-1972
By Tim Murr TwoMorrows Publishing is awesome. These dedicated fans began publishing magazines about comics in the mid-’90s, such as the authoritative series Jack Kirby Collector as well as Comic Book...
View ArticleBook Review: Ray Wylie Hubbard, A Life… Well, Lived
By Melissa Bratcher Nineteen pages into Ray Wylie Hubbard’s book, A LIfe… Well, Lived. I had teared up, laughed hard enough to snort, and planned on buying his back catalogue of music (which is...
View ArticleBook Review: Orphans
By Jeffery X Martin Many people believe that horror fiction begins and ends with Stephen King. It’s easy to see why. King has sold 900 gabillion books, and they keep coming out. The man could publish a...
View ArticleBook Review: Cult Cinema: An Arrow Video Companion
By Christine Makepeace I like the idea of collecting the musing and essays from individual Arrow releases into a single bound book. In theory, that is. In reality, if I’m interested in reading analysis...
View ArticleHunting Witches with Jeffery X Martin
By Laury Scarbro I have had the pleasure, nay, honor of being able to review the book Hunting Witches by our very own Jeffery X Martin. This “non-vel”, as he calls it, took many months of work, blood,...
View ArticleBook Review: Zero Saints
By Tim Murr Fernando is a drug dealer from Mexico living in Austin, Texas. He works for a man named Guillermo and is doing all right for himself since crossing “la frontera.” Then one night he’s...
View ArticleBook Review: Ben Wheatley – Confusion and Carnage
By Less Lee Moore My introduction to Ben Wheatley was Sightseers, a film based on characters so hilariously loathsome I wasn’t even sure I actually liked the movie until days later. That’s when I knew...
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