michael lambe

Over the past few years I’ve gotten into the habit of buying The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror as December approaches. It’s a great big fat hunk of a book, about 40 stories and poems, and lots of chewy meat and potatoes in there. I always enjoy it. It’s reliably really good. So I thought [...]

Every year in December I give myself a Christmas present. Throughout the year, when I see a book I want to read, I add it to my amazon wishlist and then wait… Then come December, I study the ridiculously long list it has become and ask myself “How much do I really want this?” and [...]

John Dougill sent me a copy of his “Kyoto: A Cultural History” to review on Deep Kyoto and so far I like what I read:
Throughout the year succesive waves of colour break upon the city. Plum and peach blossom heralds the more famous cherry, after which follow azalea and iris. In summer come hydrangea, water [...]

I liked what Neil Gaiman said in this recent interview about maintaining his enthusiasim for his work in defiance of what others may deem common sense:
I think you need to be mad. You need a certain amount of slightly focused madness that’s also belief in yourself in the face of all opposition. Without it, I [...]

If you really want to know about it, about J.D. Salinger’s lousy book and his goddamn themes of alienation and teenage angst and all that intellectual crap then I suggest you read it yourself, because I don’t feel like discussing it much to be honest. You have to be in the mood for that kind [...]

I really am going to have to get me one of these:

I know you can watch Mr. Gaiman reading the whole book FOR FREE up here: MOUSECIRCUS! but I don’t want to listen to it, I want to READ it. I like hearing the voices in my head.
Did I just write that out loud?
The Graveyard [...]

The Mainichi Daily News site is running a series of interviews with popular novelist Murakami Haruki this week in which he talks about his influences, the rhythm of translation, his latest epic (on which he is now working) and the greater purpose of storytelling…
“What I fear more than anything else is ‘psychological enclosure’ imposed by [...]

A collaborative creative writing Stanford class project to write a 224 page graphic novel over six weeks, resulted in “Shake Girl” and the results are now available as a free online book. I read it today and was very impressed. The story is based on real events, and its purpose is to raise awareness of [...]

Somebody has put up the text of a classic Sandman sequence to dramatize the ongoing struggle for power between Obama and Clinton ~ and it so works!
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Boingboing has a link up today to a full scan of The Usborne Book of the Future: A Trip In Time to the Year 2000 and Beyond (1979). It’s a very exciting (to a schoolboy) and optimistic vision of a now alternate future of undersea cities, space travel, robots, incredible cybernetic advances in medicine… you [...]