One Million Images
“The British Library has uploaded one million public domain scans from 17th-19th century books to Flickr!” (Thanks, Kate!)
Interview with Gareth Evans
City On Fire Podcast interviews Gareth Evans, director of Merantau; The Raid; and the upcoming, The Raid 2: Berandal. (Via The Heroic Sisterhood)
RIP, Ida Pollock
Author Ida Pollock has died. Writing under multiple noms de plume, Pollock published 120 books and was a founder of the Romantic Novelists Association. The Mary-Sue has an obituary. NPR talks with her daughter, Rosemary Pollock. The Telegraph has an overview of her career.
Fantasy Cartography
Jonathan Roberts mapped Westeros for The Land of Ice And Fire, see his fantasy maps and read an interview with him via The AV Club.
The Dandy Doctor
You may have missed the news, but this is the 50th anniversary of a cheap, scrappy British science fiction series called Doctor Who. Like a fair number of folk my age, I first stumbled across Doctor Who one Saturday afternoon on PBS, back when PBS was able to […]
PD James’ Tips For Writing A Novel
Author P.D. James shares ten writing tips. “I love situations where people are thrown together in unwelcome proximity, where all kinds of reprehensible emotions can bubble up.”
The Cultural Gutter 