Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton by Matt Phelan
What makes it all the more fun is that it captures both history and biography without seeming like school work or coming off pedantic. Instead it is engaging an...
Year: 2013
The Last Battle by Stephen Harding
May 1945. Hitler is dead, and the Third Reich little more than smoking rubble. No GI wants to be the last man killed in action against the Germans. But for ciga...
The Art of the Negative Review: "Night Film" Edition
"The saga of a legendary film director, Stanislas Cordova, and the suicide of his 24-year-old daughter, Ashley, "Night Film" is willfully portentous, claustroph...
Video: Barter Books and the story of Keep Calm and Carry On
A short film that tells the story behind the 'Keep Calm and Carry On' poster. Its origins at the beginning of WWII and its rediscovery in a bookshop in England ...
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (Audio)
Listening rather than reading it was a different experience, but I thoroughly enjoyed this elegant and engaging fantasy. Full of sparkling details, exotic and e...
The Wanderer in Unknown Realms by John Connolly
The set up is excellent and Connolly really builds the atmosphere and tension. There is an interesting cast of characters and enough mystery to keep you reading...