I have learned that Meena Kandasamy's Touch is essentially out of print (her publisher folded in the recession).  She has, however, made the entire text available as a pdf file at her website, http://www.meenakandasamy.com/  .

The url for the pdf is http://www.meenakandasamy.com/touch_meenakandasamy.pdf

Some words of full disclosure: Mike James, the author of the poetry collection Nothing But Love (available from Pathwise Press, or by order from Amazon.com) is not just a colleague, but a friend and the publisher of my own chapbook.

Despite this evidence of possible prejudice, I hope you will believe (and follow) my strong ( Read more... )

Hey kids --

For our common room entertainment, I'm bringing games and DVDs. Can anyone bring a DVD player, or have the know how to link up a computer? I have co-axial cables, if that will help.

Kristi

The full-weekend registration rate for Context 22 (Columbus, OH the weekend of August 28-30) goes up to $45 tomorrow morning, so you can save $10 by registering this evening ( Read more... )

Every once in awhile, you read something that has a timeless quality to it, that you can read when you're 10 and read again when you're 20 and still, it holds its magic.

Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn is one such book.

The Sum-up: The timeless tale of a unicorn who discovers she is the last of her kind on the earth. Yearning for answers, she ( Read more... )

Wow...it's truly the first day of spring here. 70 degrees and gorgeous, picturesque like the old-school images of The Party trekking out on the epic Quest (because, as you know, it NEVER rains in fantasy, right?)

Roger Schlobin's "The Aesthetics of Fantasy Literature and Art" doesn't really answer that age-old question of why we never picturing ( Read more... )

Hey fellow WPFers.

If anyone is interested, here are links to my reviews for my genre readings (in fantasy) for this term:

A Darkness Forged in Fire by Chris Evans: Elves, guns, and colonialism. Not a bad first book.

The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson: A satisfying ending to an epic fantasy trilogy.

The Cipher by Diana Pharaoh Francis: ( Read more... )

The Sum-Up:
Book One of the Arthurian Saga is told from Merlin's POV, and takes the reader from the chara's childhood all the way up to the fateful deal with Uther that leads to Arthur's conception.

The Review: IMHO
First off, I feel as though a book from Merlin's POV is an incredible waste of time. Why, you may ask? Simply because Merlin is ( Read more... )

Okay...here it is ( Read more... )

So....I finally finished the epic-ness of T.H White's "The Once and Future King." I'm not going to lie, I had a really hard time staying focussed during this book. While I found many of the charas interesting and their interactions very worthy of notice, it was difficult slogging through the pages and pages of narrative summary about boar hunting ( Read more... )