With new ideas about what the Voynich Manuscript actually is, disarmingly obvious sanity for libraries from Sydney, and more strange words added to the Oxford English Dictionary it’s just another day at the office for us. Oh, and we kind of have a quiz about the 2017 Diagram Prize for […]
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Keyframe 81 – Pope Gundam’s Cosmic Dance-Off
Literary Loitering 69 – Batman’s Single Dad Fanfiction
We’ve got a smorgasbord of strangeness this week with the Jeremy Corbyn colouring book, Anthony Burgess on pornography, DILF romances and eating books (literally). We also take a look at twenty allegedly helpful advisory tweets for writers that have been compiled into a “helpful” list. Our featured book is Eagle […]
Literary Loitering 68 – Dude, Wherefore Art Mine Chariot?
We’re a man down and suffering from the heat this week, but still we soldier on against history students, Shakesperian Ghostbusters, Pissing Pugs and “the ultimate therapeutic experience” (according to the guy who took the photos). Our featured book is Warlock Holmes: A Study in Brimstone by G. S. Denning. […]
Literary Loitering 67 – The Balaclava of Shame
Literary Loitering 66 – Magic Balls and Where to Find Them
Keyframe 78 – Dragon and Crocodile, Sitting In A Tree …
Literary Loitering 65 – It’s a Mads Mads Mads Mads World
While the sales of real books rises and e-books fall, we discover a litany of complaints from a conservative politician (about a literary prize), Marcel Proust (about his neighbour’s sexy time), women about Bill O’Reilly (for being Bill O’Reilly we presume), and J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis (about Walt Disney). […]