Flashbak has a gallery of Gothic romance covers with many women running from houses. “What exactly is the ‘women running from houses’ genre? I’m glad you asked. It refers to Gothic romance novels (generally paperback) which WITHOUT EXCEPTION pictured a woman running from a house on the cover. It’s […]
Vox has not so much a profile as multiple stories about national treasure and writer Dr. Chuck Tingle. “The moral of this first story is that it doesn’t matter if no one knows who Chuck Tingle is, because Chuck Tingle is all of us. But that’s not the […]
Hyperallergic has a piece on Soviet children’s books between 1920 and 1935, with images from Inside the Rainbow: Russian Children’s Literature 1920-35: Beautiful Books, Terrible Times. “The 1920s in Russia weren’t exactly what people had hoped they would be. After the 1917 Russian Revolution brought down the old regime […]
Behold Benjamin Mackey’s Twin Peaks tarot deck at Open Culture.
I must have been eight or nine when I decided to put up a play for our annual Teachers’ Day. It was the only day each year when kids had the opportunity to go up on stage and present their creative work. My friends and I believed that […]
Power Records has many superhero, science fiction, movie and tv show read-along records and comics for your reading and listening pleasure!