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Year of the Month 1930: The Cat Who Went to Heaven
I love cats. Ever since I was a little girl, I have loved cats completely…
The Friday Article Roundup: Welcome the Singularity!
The FAR is not fighting the coming domination by robots, but heading the line to…
Ellroycast #7: My Dark Places with Anastasia Rose Hyden (Year of the Month)
True-crime expert Anastasia Rose Hyden joins us to talk about Ellroy’s “L. A. Crime Memoir”…
Are You Happy? Puzzles, Propaganda, POPCO
Alice Butler takes the overnight train alone. She wears a necklace given to her as…
Book On The Shelf: The Man In The High Castle
Philip K Dick’s The Man In The High Castle is the most distressed I have…
Ellroycast #2: the Public Intellectual
Introducing: the Ellroycast
The debut episode of a podcast about all things James Ellroy, featuring Son of Griff and…
Year of the Month: David “Rosy Fingers” McFarlane on Agatha Christie’s 1934.
1934 turned out to be a banner year for Agatha Christie. Fourteen years into her…
Year of the Month: Miller on COLD HAND IN MINE
An’ now people just get uglier An’ I have no sense of time.” — Bob…