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The Joys of Research
From the front page of a microfilmed 1903 newspaper in the Historic New Orleans Collection… not exactly the reason I was there, but too good to ignore.
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More Bones from the Kingdom
Tastes vary. I can remember going to see an afternoon show of Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks with a group of friends and realising that, out of all the fellow-cheapskates and pensioners who made up the rest of the meagre discount-ticket audience, we were the only ones laughing. Looking around and seeing all those stony faces…
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The Kingdom of Bones: the first review
From the current issue of Publishers Weekly: The Kingdom of BonesStephen Gallagher. Crown/Shaye Areheart, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-307-38280-1Set mainly in late 19th-century England, Gallagher’s ingenious horror thriller revolves around the extraordinary life—and death—of Tom Sayers, a real-life bare-knuckle fighter who, after retiring, briefly traveled the country staging reenactments of his most memorable bouts. While working…
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T*ts, Bangs, and Tenure
I’ve a friend who’s a psychology PhD, struggling to establish herself on the academic ladder. She’s been told that in order to keep her job she has to get two papers published in a recognised journal. I’d always thought that publication in learned journals was a way for academics add to their income. Not so,…
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Patterson’s Elves
THE TIMES of London ran a piece on the working methods of novelist James Patterson, showing that his high-turnover fiction output is largely a result of his farming out the production work to hired-gun collaborators. Patterson is renowned for his “golden gut”, an instinct for what will and won’t work in a story. When (Maxine)…
Hauling Like A Brooligan
Stephen Gallagher
