I have thoroughly enjoyed showrunner/head writer Steven Moffat‘s fresh take on Doctor Who, and I’ve equally enjoyed Matt Smith’s take on the character and the deepening relationship between the Doctor and his new companions, Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill). Part of the excitement may have been being in on Seasons 5 and 6 as …
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Mara Gibson: Map of Rain Hitting Water
In the late ’90s, I decided I wanted to take piano lessons. By chance, a flyer at the Regulator Bookshop let me know about Mara Gibson, a Duke PhD student in composing, who taught piano on the side. I worked with her, I think, for about 2 years before she left Durham to finish her …
Toecovers
The latest memoir we’ve been reading is Betty MacDonald‘s “The Plague and I,” the 1948 follow-up to her wildly successful 1945 humorous memoir about being a chicken-farmer, “The Egg and I.” (The latter book also introducing Ma and Pa Kettle into popular culture, so please appreciate the research that goes into these posts.) “The Plague …
Stevereads
Stevereads tackles the history of the first Star Trek books, which were collections of stories from the original series. I well remember being mesmerized by the covers and the thrill of reliving this series, whenever I liked, in book form. (Man, I’d have loved Wild Wild West novelizations too!) (interesting that those two shows were …
Lewis Shiner and the Fiction Liberation Front
Friend and colleague Lewis Shiner is a writer and novelist who has been releasing his fiction on the web for the last few years. Here’s an appreciation of Lew and his site that I wrote for the SILS Galley, way back in Fall 2007: Raleigh resident Lewis Shiner made his name in the ’80s as …
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Roald Dahl’s “Boy”
A very nice habit we picked up from Liz’s parents was her dad reading to her mom. We’ve adapted that to me reading to Liz before she turns out the light for bed (I’m an owl, we stay up later). After much experimentation, we’ve decided that memoirs are the best before-bedtime subject matter. Even then, …
“Dreams with Sharp Teeth”
Thanks to the glory of Netflix, Liz and I saw this documentary that I can assure you never visited the Carolina Theatre. It’s a bio-doc on the writer Harlan Ellison, 72 years old at the time of the movie’s release in 2007, and covers an impressive sweep of his life, with samples of him reading …
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