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WBH Weekly Digest 2023-10-27: Leigh Brackett and Edmond Hamilton

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-10-27: Leigh Brackett and Edmond Hamilton

Time manages to get away from me these days, but I submitted a book review for publication in a magazine and I wrote another one for Starship Grifters this week, so let's keep things rolling with a selection of the Internet's finest links. This interview with

Book Reviews and the Great Conversation: What Readers Like Versus What Authors Like

I am indebted to The Pulp Archivist for the title of this post, but I see it as an extension of my blog from 2020 What authors like versus what readers like. As someone who really likes adventure books, and really likes to blog about adventure books, there is a

The Long View 2008-02-21: Campus Lockdown; Times misfire; Spengler Meets John Brown; Gerson and Providence; Vox Day Blast

John J. Reilly makes the excellent point that as beloved and influential as C. S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton are, most of their work is between 60 and 100 years old, and the obsessions of the broader culture have changed quite a bit in the intervening decades. Apologetics must

C. S. Lewis' Alternative Obituary

C. S. Lewis' Alternative Obituary

This article is Alternative History. It is not true. Do not cite it except as fiction. From the Obituaries of The New York Times, November 26, 1963 Argentine police officials today confirmed that the remains of Clive Staples Lewis were among those found in the ashes of a bungalow on

The Contemplative Life -- Pt. II

It took me a couple of weeks to finally paint in all the corners I needed to repost John Reilly's review of St. Teresa's The Interior Castle. Sure, I could have just slapped it up here, but I like to preserve the web of links John

The Long View: The Interior Castle

This luminous review of St. Teresa's The Interior Castle finally brings me full circle, back to the mysteries of human experience, and the unity of mystical experience across religions. The Interior Castle By St. Teresa of Avila Translated by: The Monks of Stanbrook, 1911 Spanish Original: Published Circa

Linkfest 2017-03-26

Tollense Battle Last summer I posted an article about a battlefield from the Bronze Age. Here is another article about the same archaeological site, with an alternative explanation of what happened. Archaeology always requires interpretation, so it is wise to keep in mind exactly what you found, and how it