Saturday, January 07, 2017
Francine York, R. I. P.
Hollywood Reporter: Francine York, the statuesque actress who showed off her sexuality as The Bookworm's moll on Batman and in such films as It's Only Money, Cannon for Cordoba and The Doll Squad, has died. She was 80.
Nat Hentoff, R. I. P.
SFGate: NEW YORK (AP) — Nat Hentoff, an eclectic columnist, critic, novelist and agitator dedicated to music, free expression and defying the party line, died Saturday at age 91.
Makes Sense to Me
Visiting Disney World is the Modern Version of Making a Medieval Pilgrimage: According to anthropologists, religious studies experts, and art historians.
The Digest Enthusiast #5 -- You Know You Want It!
The Digest Enthusiast #5 | Digest Magazines: The Digest Enthusiast #5 Jan. 2017 cover by Joe Wehrle, Jr.
TDE5 is now available in print and Kindle editions.
Here’s the lineup: • Interview with Bill Crider: The inside story on Dan Rhodes, EQMM’s Blog Bytes and Bill’s storied career with digests—with special coverage of the beloved DAPA-EM.
• Digest News: the latest from Dell, Fate, F&SF, Nostalgia Digest, Video WatcHDog and our contributors; readers’ response to TDE4; plus Tom Brinkmann’s portraits of synchronicity.
• Peter Enfantino’s overview and synopses of Martin Goodman’s Justice Amazing Detective Mysteries. • Steve Carper cracks the riddle of the remarkable Ellery Queen Selects series.
• Peter Enfantino reports on the editorial insights of Robert A.W. Lowndes on his ultimate manifestation: the Magazine of Horror.
• RAWL on Writing for Publication, a summary by Richard Krauss.
• Reviews of the UK’s Worlds of Fantasy #4, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction edited by Peter Nicholls, Charles Beckman, Jr.’s Honky Tonk Girl by Gary Lovisi, and Marvel Science Stories May 1951.
• Genre fiction by Lesann Berry, Richard L. Kellogg, and Joe Wehrle, Jr.; with illustrations by Brian Buniak, Michael Neno, and Joe Wehrle, Jr.
• Plus contents lists and sources; digest magazine checklists; Haiku by Clark Dissmeyer; cartoons by Brad Foster and Bob Vojtko; and more.
Print version, $8.99, includes nearly 100 B&W cover images, 152 pages, 5.5″ x 8.5″ digest. Kindle version, $2.99, includes over 50 color cover images.
Here’s the lineup: • Interview with Bill Crider: The inside story on Dan Rhodes, EQMM’s Blog Bytes and Bill’s storied career with digests—with special coverage of the beloved DAPA-EM.
• Digest News: the latest from Dell, Fate, F&SF, Nostalgia Digest, Video WatcHDog and our contributors; readers’ response to TDE4; plus Tom Brinkmann’s portraits of synchronicity.
• Peter Enfantino’s overview and synopses of Martin Goodman’s Justice Amazing Detective Mysteries. • Steve Carper cracks the riddle of the remarkable Ellery Queen Selects series.
• Peter Enfantino reports on the editorial insights of Robert A.W. Lowndes on his ultimate manifestation: the Magazine of Horror.
• RAWL on Writing for Publication, a summary by Richard Krauss.
• Reviews of the UK’s Worlds of Fantasy #4, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction edited by Peter Nicholls, Charles Beckman, Jr.’s Honky Tonk Girl by Gary Lovisi, and Marvel Science Stories May 1951.
• Genre fiction by Lesann Berry, Richard L. Kellogg, and Joe Wehrle, Jr.; with illustrations by Brian Buniak, Michael Neno, and Joe Wehrle, Jr.
• Plus contents lists and sources; digest magazine checklists; Haiku by Clark Dissmeyer; cartoons by Brad Foster and Bob Vojtko; and more.
Print version, $8.99, includes nearly 100 B&W cover images, 152 pages, 5.5″ x 8.5″ digest. Kindle version, $2.99, includes over 50 color cover images.
Friday, January 06, 2017
PaperBack
Ellery Queen (Daniel Nathan [Frederic Dannay] and Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky [Manfred Bennington Lee]), The Four of Hearts, Pocket Books, 1943
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