There’s an excellent review of Fagles’ translation of Virgil’s Aeneid over at Powell’s. I’m definitely picking this edition up when it eventually makes it’s way to the McNally Robinson bargain section. It seems like all the best books wind up there sooner or later. The biggest obstacle to enjoying the classics, for most people, myself…

Janine Wood at The Christian Science Monitor wonders why no one reads the classics anymore – especially Dickens. “Classics are stupid,” said one 13-year-old girl, whose desperate mother had tried paying her to read Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women.” “I’d have to buy my son 17 North Face jackets before he’d look at a classic,”…

Hey! Classics Illustrated are back. Oh, wait. When the press release came out about the first Graphic Classics collection, I remember its stressing that these books were not an updated version of Classics Illustrated. I also remember being skeptical. You mean to tell me that you’re adapting the work of literary giants into comic format,…

An author’s voice is a funny thing. To hear an author’s voice we have to see it. We have to use our eye’s to hear. And the author, he has to use his fingers to speak. SF author Harlan Ellison will not use a computer to speak. He prefers the visceral physical thrill of banging…

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