The Bibliophage

Anyone remember that classic episode of the Twilight Zone Time Enough At Last starring Burgess Meredith as the bookish Mr. Bemis who is constantly reading to the detriment of his personal and professional life? In the requisite TZ twist, our protagonist finds himself alone, the sole survivor of World War III, with all […]

From the little known facts department:
Francis Dickens (yes that Dickens), the third son of famed Charles Dickens is buried in a cemetery overlooking the Mighty Mississip in the small town of Moline, Ill.
For the full story, head over to the Chicago Tribune.
To see exactly where he’s buried courtesy of Google maps, click here.

A previously unpublished Dumas novel has been discovered in serial format by a retired lecturer in a now defunct 19th century journal called The Universal Monitor.
From the full article (link via yahoo news):
“The novel, which Schopp gave the title ‘Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine,’ charts the life of a dashing young nobleman, Hector de Sainte-Hermine, […]

The Guardian has a very cool contest going to imagine how Dumbledore of Harry Potter fame will meet his end in the style of another author. There are a ton of really great entries here.
(via Making Light)
Tags: Harry Potter

I’ve been looking over some different canned themes for Wordpress lately. I’m not entirely unhappy with the vanilla Kubrick theme you’re looking at (if anyone is actually reading this that is!), but I would like to jazz things up a bit. I am thinking about three (or maybe even four) […]

I finished up the first book of Cervante’s Don Quixote today. I’m reading from Edith Grossman’s translation. I haven’t read any of the other ones or the original Spanish to be able to compare, but I found the translation to be a great read in terms of style. There […]

I first came across the Reading Rat around this time last year, and figured I’d mention it as a fantastic resource for reading ideas in the Great Books vein. In the unlikely event you’ve run out of reading ideas, check it out. It’s organized chronologically and begins with Gilgamesh in 2300 […]