From long-gone Holiday magazine, an uplifting essay about Disneyland and the possibilities of robots: The Machine-tooled Happyland, by Ray Bradbury—October 1965.
And from The Paris Review, an interview with Ray Bradbury on the art of fiction.
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2012 James Ament Thoughts from Linda Cannon on “The Western Lit Survival Kit: An Irreverent Guide to the Classics, from Homer to Faulkner,” by Sandra Newman. An excerpt of Ms. Cannon’s review:
As advertised, it runs through the Western canon from Homer through Faulkner, including novelists, short story writers and poets. The book is divided by literary periods into 13 chapters, from “Greece: Cradle of Greek Civilization” to “The Messy Twentieth: Finally Over.” The chapter titles alone give you a sense of the tone of the book…
In addition to discussing the works, Newman also covers the private lives of the authors. Most of the really irreverent material comes from those entries, but the books, plays and poems themselves come in for more than a little ribbing.
Sounds like fun.
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