Eric Scheske

Subscribe

Books

Joe Campbell

Unless you read some relatively-arcane journals or Canadian periodicals, you've probably never heard of Joe Campbell. Eric Scheske has long enjoyed Mr. Campbell's essays for Gilbert Magazine [http://www.gilbertmagazine.com/]. For those who don't subscribe, you're missing one of the more

More Dahl

The New Yorker has run a lengthy piece about Roald Dahl. Link [http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/articles/050711crat_atlarge]. Excerpt: > Dahl shared with George Orwell an acute sense of why small children often see adults as unsightly or intimidating. “Part of the reason for the ugliness of

A Splendid Collection

A review of The Everyman Book of Nonsense Verse [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400044251/thedailyeudem-20]. Link [http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2246/]. Excerpts: > The lavish new Everyman Book Of Nonsense Verse is an exemplary anthology, covering the ground with thoroughness while also aggravating and

We, Too, Have Loved the Stacks

A pseudonymous writer makes an impassioned plea for the stacks and urges colleges not to throw away their books. Link [http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=0gixexfr1qnuloqnx6pvokmo3ek5o8np]. Excerpt: > Where will the library ghosts go . . . when all the books have been made immaterial and antiseptic through digitization? > What

Wonka's Creator

From an on-line biography of Roald Dahl: > By the time Roald was thirteen the family had moved to Kent in England, and he was soon sent off to the famous Repton Public School. His sisters all attended Roedean in Sussex. To Roald, Repton was even worse than St. Peter&

A Bit on B16's Views on Harry Potter

> Debates are raging online and off over whether the new Pope Benedict really disapproves of Harry Potter. > It seems a German author, Gabriele Kuby, recently wrote a book called "Harry Potter - Gut Oder Bose" (that translates as "Harry Potter - Good or Evil,"

More Harry

The new Harry Potter is selling 250,000 copies an hour. Rowling made over $36 million in a day. This type of frenzy in a medium that's dead? Interesting. Link [http://www3.contactmusic.com/news/index15.htm].

We're Aghast!

> According to America's New York Post newspaper, a source has alleged the pop queen did not write her Kabbalah-inspired children's books by herself. > The insider claims the stories - 'The English Roses', 'Mr. Peabody's Apples', 'Yakov and

Philip K. Dick

Tech Central Station has run a neat--though somewhat chilling--piece about the sci-fi work of Philip K. Dick. Link [http://www.techcentralstation.com/071105B.html]. Excerpt: > Indeed, Dick, although stone-cold dead for nearly a quarter-century, is doing pretty well. His 50 volumes of fiction have inspired such classic movies as

Attacking the Therapeutic Society

The Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute has run a review of Christina Hoff Sommers' and Sally Satel's book, One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance. We'd give the review a five, on a scale of 1-10, but the book sounds pretty