Monthly Archives: February 2012
Preacher Man
I just started reading, or rereading, Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher series. Years ago I began this title, but after awhile I let it go, around issue #18, and I never got back to it. I didn’t put it down … Continue reading
Youth Culture Killed My Dog
Yesterday I finished reading Bradford W. Wright’s Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America. I highly recommend this title for anyone interested in comic-book history, or even interested in cultural American history in general. One of … Continue reading
Lurching Forward with My Reading
Over the past week and a half I’ve been reading collected editions in The Walking Dead series. I went back to revisit two volumes I had previously read, Books 5 and Book 6, so as to refresh myself on what had … Continue reading
Russian Émigré Short-Story Cycles
As I have mentioned in a couple of previous posts, I’m in the process of working on an essay concerning examples of the short-story cycle in recent Jewish Russian émigré narrative. I’ve done a bit of work on the short-story cycle … Continue reading
A Little of This, a Little of That
My reading has been varied these past several weeks…then again, that’s nothing new. However, in some ways I’ve slowed down a bit, not reading as much as I usually do or as I would like. And also as usual, I’ve … Continue reading