Archive for September, 2008

Frankenstein: A cultural history

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

I've finally gotten around to finishing Susan Tyler Hitchcock's Frankenstein: A Cultural History. When the book was published I hesitated, because I have a pretty good grounding in the history of horror and film, and also did a fair amount of resource gathering in my old job for Betty T. ...

Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

You'd think having ample time to lay around doing nothing but recovering from some medical ick, I'd get a lot of reading done, but you'd be wrong. I have the attention span of cheese. A nice gouda, not a stinky, runny blue cheese or anything, but cheese nonetheless. I did ...