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Day: October 11, 2017

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WWWednesday: October 11, 2017

Awards:

Kazuo Ishiguro has been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

Somtow Sucharitkul received the 2017 European Award for Cultural Achievement. Somtow began his career as a science fiction writer and has gone on to compose, conduct and direct.

N.K. Jemisin won the Sputnik Award this year. Never heard of it? Neither had I, but I read the announcement, and then I read the FAQs and fell over laughing. I hope you will too.

I had never heard of the Booknest Fantasy Awards either before last Sunday,


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October 11th, 2017. | World Wide Wednesday | 3 comments |

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Superhero Comics: A detailed and insightful semi-academic work

Superhero Comics by Chris Gavaler

Superhero Comics (2017) is my second Chris Gavaler book looking at the genre (I read On the Origin of Superheroes: From the Big Bang to Action Comics No. 1), and considering how impressed I was with both of them, I will gladly pick up a third if there is one.

The book is part of the Bloomsbury Comics Study Series, which aims for the sweet spot between the academic and the lay reader in creating a text that can especially be used in the college classroom,


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Exorcismo: For Naschy completists only

Exorcismo directed by Juan Bosch

The notion has often struck me that one of the hallmarks of truly great screen stars is their ability to render even the most egregiously shlocky films highly watchable and interesting by dint of their very presence. This idea occurred to me again several months back, as I caught the 1957 film Voodoo Island for the first time; a picture that might be close to unwatchable, had it not starred the always fascinating Boris Karloff. And this thought struck me again the other night as I sat before the 1975 Spanish horror outing Exorcismo,


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