Moss Drake

Ascending Peculiarity, Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey Selected and edited by Karen Wilkin (Harcout Brace) The Object-Lesson Edward Gorey (Harcout Brace) Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, writers of The Royal Tenenbaums, owe a huge debt to author and illustrator Edward Gorey: The high-collared fur coats, heavy eyeliner and mascara, bland expressions on the actresses, luscious […]

Carrie Stephen King (Pocket Books) Published in 1974, Carrie was Stephen King’s first novel, motivated by a combination of hunger and ambition. King had two kids and lived with his family in a trailer. He was teaching high school English–which never pays enough–and supplementing his income by selling short stories to magazines. Spending time writing […]

PHILLIP ROTH’S Portnoy’s Complaint is a novel that reads like a big long joke, with a punch line at the end. William Shatner’s third entry in his Star Trek trilogy, Star Trek: Preserver (ghostwritten with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens), is in the same vein, except it fails to provide the punch line. Imagine a story […]