New Books and ARCs, 5/9/25
Posted on May 9, 2025 Posted by John Scalzi 2 Comments
Just in time for Mother’s Day weekend, a double-sized stack of new books and ARCs that have arrived here at the Scalzi Compound. What here would make a perfect reading gift for a mom (or, really, for yourself)? Share in the comments!
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Attending A Cooking Class At Tablespoon Cooking Co. Hosted By Midwestern Lesbian
Posted on May 9, 2025 Posted by Athena Scalzi 7 Comments
That’s a pretty long title with a lot of unfamiliar words in it, so let’s break down what the heck I’m talking about before we get into it!
There’s a group I found on Instagram a while back called Midwestern Lesbian, an LGBTQ+ organization that focuses on putting on and promoting queer friendly events in Cincinnati. They host all sorts of events at local Cincinnati businesses, like bar crawls, pottery nights, and even include plenty of free events like their Sapphic Stroll.
I have wanted to attend one of their events for so long, but I seem to literally always be busy on the weekends when they’re having events, and they’re all the way down in Cincy, which is not super close for me.
Finally, I saw they were having an event on a Thursday evening. I could actually make that work. Better yet, it was a cooking class! The cooking class was held at a place in Cincinnati called Tablespoon Cooking Co., a business right across from the Findlay Market that serves to teach people of all skills how to make a yummy dish, step-by-step, while supplying great cocktails and good jokes.
When I first walked in, I immediately loved how chic the space was. While the back portion was more of the industrial, stainless-steel kitchen type of deal, the front portion was so cute with dark green velvet for the backing of the booths, 3D lemons and leaves all over the wall, hanging lights from the high ceilings, even the bathroom (which was pink!) was cute. You can even take a virtual tour of their space on their website if you want to see for yourself.
Our cooking stations were already set up and good to go for us:
For this class, the menu was a whipped ricotta crostini dish with an espresso martini. So girl dinner, am I right? All the ingredients and equipment were provided, with the instructor going through everything and providing plenty of tips and tricks.
I came alone, and anyone who came solo got partnered with someone else who was solo. I was a little nervous about that, but I ended up getting along really well with my co-chef and she was a delight to talk to and cook with! Honestly everyone I talked to was seriously awesome, and it was just amazing in general to be surrounded by so many cool, like-minded people. I felt so comfortable and everyone was so friendly.
Plus, all the staff at Tablespoon were quite friendly. They were all very welcoming and did such a great job with everything. I definitely would love to plan my own private cooking class there for like my birthday or something like that.
The martini was made closer to the end of the cooking portion, so there were drinks available for purchase beforehand that you could sip on during the welcome portion and throughout the cooking part, as well. I ended up ordering their Spring Spritz, which was strawberry cardamom syrup, Lillet Blanc, lemon juice, Cava, and soda. It was so light and refreshing, and perfectly sweet. A very balanced cocktail that was also quite pretty.
After putting in blood, sweat, and tears (or maybe just olive oil, thyme, and salt), here’s how our dish turned out:
I thought it was so cute! My co-chef didn’t particularly care for Bailey’s in her espresso martini, so I put all of the portioned out Bailey’s into my drink, hence why mine is a little different (or maybe a lot different) in color.
Everything turned out so tasty, and we all sat around and ate our completed dishes while chatting. It was so exciting getting to learn more about everyone! I seriously had such a good time at this event.
When I had originally bought the ticket, which was $60, Tablespoon asked me if I wanted to add some fresh baked cookies onto my order. I was like, obviously, and ordered a dozen of their triple chocolate chunk brown butter cookies, which was $23 dollars. They packaged them up so nicely for me!
Of course, treats are always tastier when you share, so I offered a cookie
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Book review: Dunstan the Wanderer by Raymond St. Elmo
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Book review: Dunstan the Wanderer by Raymond St. Elmo
Book links: Amazon, Goodreads
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Raymond St. Elmo is a programmer of artificial intelligences and virtual realities, who has no time for literary fabrications of fictitious characters and world-building. And yes, that was meant to be ironic.
A degree in Spanish Literature gave him a love of Magic Realism. Programming gave him a job. The job introduced him to artifical intelligence and virtual realities; as close to magic as reality is likely to get outside the covers of a book. And yes, that was meant to be cynical.
The author of several first-person comic-accounts of strange quests for mysterious manuscripts, mysterious girls in cloaks whose face appears SUDDENLY IN THE FLASH OF LIGHTNING. And yes, that was meant to be dramatic.
Publisher: St. Elmo Labs (April 14, 2025) Length: 414 pages Formats: ebook, paperback
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Where Writers Write: Tom McAllister
Welcome to another installment of TNBBC's Where Writers Write!
Where Writers Write is a series that features authors as they showcase their writing spaces using short form essay, photos, and/or video. As a lover of books and all of the hard work that goes into creating them, I thought it would be fun to see where the authors roll up their sleeves and make the magic happen.
This is Tom McAllister.
A 2006 graduate of
the Iowa Writers Workshop, Tom McAllister is the co-creator of the
popular Book Fight! podcast where writers talk honestly about
books, writing, and the literary world. He’s also the author of the critically
acclaimed novels How to Be Safe—which Ron Charles praised in The
Washington Post as “like nothing else I’ve read”—and The Young
Widower’s Handbook—which Kirkus called “a quirky,
well-told fiction debut”—as well as the memoir Bury Me in My Jersey—which Publishers
Weekly declared “a feverish coming-of-age tale of a gridiron groupie
known as a Philly fanatic.” McAllister’s latest work is just as surprising,
lively, skillful, and human.
Where Tom McAllister Writes
My wife
and I moved to a smaller home in June 2020, a time of great uncertainty for
obvious reasons, and although this was not close to the biggest challenge in my
life, I was forced to replace my desk. My previous desk was a hulking,
utilitarian throwback, the kind of desk my father would have had at the office
jobs he held late in his life, with big bulky file drawers and a flat,
unassuming finish. It weighed, conservatively, 7000 pounds. On moving day, it
took three professionals to maneuver it out of the old house, into the truck
and then into our attached garage, because there was no chance it could fit
into my new office. The new house is smaller because we wanted a smaller house,
wanted to simplify our lives at least a little bit. In the old place, my home
office was a large bedroom, once used by a child who had a wallpaper border
with teddy bear print wrapping around the room (the previous owners had tried
to scrape it off, but gave up on the corners, and in the eight years we lived
there, we never tried to remove it; my guess is it’s still there). In the new
house, a Cape Cod with finished attic, my office is a small, trapezoidal space
carved out into the east-facing side of the house. Perfectly functional, if not
glamorous. The desk couldn’t even fit up the stairs, let alone into the room.
I’d gotten the desk for free, from a
local business called Office Furniture Outlet, when my wife and I appeared on a
short-lived home renovation show called Moving Up. On Moving Up, you follow a chain of three families: Family A sells to Family B, who sells
to Family C. We were Family C, the young couple just starting out. We agreed to
be on the show because I erroneously thought it would be fun, and because we
would get a number of household items free or at steep discounts: 20 gallons of
paint, two portable air conditioners, a few area rugs, office furniture. I
forget what else. I liked that old desk because it was free, and flat, and it
held my things, but I had no particular attachment to it.
After the move, I decided to splurge
on a mid-century modern desk from a popular retailer. I told myself, “You
deserve this,” whatever that means (if it’s even true). Because of covid, there
was a long delay in my receiving the desk, and in the interim, I placed my
computer on top of a rectangular folding table that rattled every time I
pressed a key. Beneath me, in the garage, was the old desk that I was trying to
sell for cheap on Facebook Marketplace. This new desk looks nicer, I think, and
it is also flat and it holds my things.
My
wife would tell you that it holds too many things, that my propensity for piles
stresses her out, but she tolerates my piles so long as they are mostly
contained within this room. The piles mostly have functions. The two hardcover
books to the right are Asne Seierstad books (both excellent) that serve as an
ideal pedestal for my computer when I am in a Zoom meeting or recording a
podcast. Behind that, I keep the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus, the most useful reference book
I’ve ever owned. The pile to the left is a stack of documents, a mixture of
drafts on which I need to make edits and various items that need filing at some
point, though if I’m being honest may never be filed.
In
these photos you also see Larry, the lamp, rescued from the trash at my aunt’s house
many years ago. It felt criminal to let an artifact like this disappear. Larry,
for the record, also weighs about 3000 pounds. The shelf to the left of the
desk holds mostly teaching materials, among other doodads and keepsakes and
nonsense. The shelf has followed us for all 20 years we’ve lived together, part
of a furniture set inherited from my wife’s mother. Behind me, there is another
bookshelf, purchased at a consignment store and painted in the back yard, one
of many attempts to control the
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CLIVE CUSSLER - THE SEA WOLVES
CLIVE CUSSLER – THE
SEA WOLVES
By Jack Du Brul
Putnam Books
385 pgs
Of all the adventure
pulp series the late Clive Cussler created, our favorite remains the Isaac Bell
stories. Oh, we totally appreciated the Dirk Pitt tales. It’s always been our
believe that they were the first in a resurgence of American pulp fiction. Still,
the turn of the century setting established for professional Van Dorn Detective
Bell appeals to our love of history. Cussler only ever penned the first Isaac
Bell book, “The Chase.” The next eight were written by Justin Scott and he did
a magnificent job with them. Now the baton has been handed off to Jack Du Brul,
another “Cussler” writer. “The Sea Wolves” is his third Isaac Bell outing;
making it the twelfth in the series.
As the drama begins,
World War One is ravaging Europe, but President Woodrow Wilson is determined to
keep the United States neutral. Still, he’s willing to aid our cousins, the
British, with much needed war armament. Learning this, the German set about targeting
these ships with their U-Boats patrolling the North Atlantic. Their retaliation
is cautionary in that they only hunt British ships avoiding those flying the US
Flag. Whereas their success rate of discovering and sinking those specific
ships is uncanny. Enough so that a young Navy Officer, Joe Marchetti, suspects
a German spy ring to be operating on the docks of New York harbor and
responsible for identifying those ships to the German submarines.
Marchetti seeks out
Bell’s help in not only finding the spies but determining exactly how they are
getting their messages to the submarines. Once again, Du Brul narrates a
suspenseful, fact moving thriller; at the same time capturing the feel of the
period and the events that tragically led to America’s entry into the war. It’s
a terrific read and highly recommended.
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What differentiates The Satanic Screen: An Illustrated Guide to the Devil in Cinema is author Nikolas Schreck used to practice the Black Arts. That granted the original 2001 edition a seal of credibility, but this new, considerable update — courtesy of Headpress — allows him to cover dozens of titles that didn’t exist, like Megiddo: The Omega Code 2, in a hilarious review that alone is worth the price of purchase. In his intro, Schreck asks, “Who the hell is the Devil anyway?” then answers with a thorough history lesson spanning the life of cinema. Yes, horror films abound, but Satan pops up in costumed dramas, British comedies, kiddie matinees, mondo docs, animation, pornography and even an “all-Negro musical” from Vincente Minnelli. From Kenneth Anger to Irwin Allen, Ingmar Bergman to Ed Wood, our writer proves to be the authority of the evil one’s vast filmography. Surrender!
Another year means another McFarland & Company publication from Roberto Curti. As prolific as he is, his subject this time makes him look lazy by comparison: cult icon Jess Franco. Co-authored by Francesco Cesari, The Films of Jesus Franco, 1953-1966 examines the works of the Spanish director from his start — his pre-OB/GYN cinema, one might say. As is Curti’s wont, each pic — from puffery like Attack of the Robots to artistic triumphs like The Diabolical Dr. Z — reliably devotes coverage so in-depth, they may as well be a submersible. What really makes this Jesús text special is how heavily it goes into Franco films we’ll never see, from his university short Theory of Sunrise, a debut “ignored” by other Franco texts, to Treasure Island, an abandoned ’64 adaptation/collaboration with Orson Welles. One Yank’s quibble: The movies are listed in Spanish, so unless you know your Red Lips from your Labios rojos, keep the index bookmarked.
I thought my own book did a decent job of mining some obscurities … then along comes Lowest Common Denominator: The Amateurish Writings of a Failed Film Critic to show everybody up on that front. Written by David John Koenig, aka “A Fiend on Film,” the self-published paperback might review as many movies I’ve never heard of as it has pages! That’s because Koenig’s tastes lean toward the Asian, underground, microindie and black-and-white crime pics as old as my grandparents. Needless to say, my Tubi list grew exponentially as I read. And read. And read! From A to Z, I didn’t miss a word and, as a result, got exposed to a whole new world.
When a movie gains a fervent, coast-to-coast cult, multiple books on it inevitably follow. That’s certainly the case with Tommy Wiseau’s The Room. I reviewed two of them a decade ago, and now it’s time to add a third with BearManor Media’s release of Accidental Genius: An Oral History of The Room. Think the world doesn’t need another? Think again. Andrew J. Rausch, whose work I love, goes deeper on the topic than any medium before him. With dozens of people weighing in, his task as curator and craftsman couldn’t have been easy, but as a read, it sure is. The anecdotes are as crazy as a Room viewer could hope for, from using Greg Sestero’s facial hair as a guide for editing the nonsensical scenes into something watchable to Wiseau’s desire to perform his sex scenes unsimulated. On purpose, Accidental’s a lot of fun, as entertaining as it is thorough — enough to make you want to exclaim in joy, “Hai, doggy!”
Enjoyed the historical aspect of Vincent A. Albarano’s recent Aesthetic Deviations: A Critical View of American Shot-on-Video Horror, but wish it also had room for reviews and interviews? Then you’re going to love Justin Burning’s Hand-Held Hell: The Outbreak of Homemade Horror. With a title like that, how could you not? Well, quite easily, were we in the hands of a poor writer, but that, Burning is not. Covering a mind-boggling 40 years’ worth of SOV projects, he gives great insight about movies I’ve not only seen (Video Violence), but seen more than once (Black Devil Doll from Hell), wish I could unsee (The Burning Moon) and absolutely never will see (August Underground). Interspersed among these 44 movies are interviews with nearly two dozen directors — including such household Hanekes as Tim Ritter, Bret McCormick and Donald Farmer — and full-color photos, all in a trade-paperback package heavy enough to challenge your wrists’ strength. For the right type of person (like you and me), this trip through Hell feels like heaven.
As someone whose film knowledge began on watching movies on UHF channels and read the Sunday paper’s TV listings supplement in full, Armchair Cinema: A History of Feature Films on British Television, 1929-1981 stirred nostalgia in this American. It’s a shame the Edinburgh University Press title costs such a pretty penny, because I suspect like minds would find it catnippy, too. Leslie Halliwell (he of the Halliwell’s Film Guide) emerges as a hidden hero as Sheldon Hall looks back at when the tube saw
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Photography: Youngest Son of the Visual Arts
Of all the major artistic media, only photography appeared relatively late in the course of human history.
While people have been writing, painting, and composing music for thousands of years, they have only been taking photographs since 1826. In that year, French scientist Joseph Niépce snapped the world’s first photo (entitled ‘View from the Window at Le Gras’) at his country estate.
This website is created and run by photography enthusiasts for photography enthusiasts. Conveniently broken up into easily digestible sections, it offers a range of written and visual material on the exciting world of photography.
Two Centuries in Photos
It’s hard to believe, but cameras and photography are still less than 200 years old. In the 195 years since the camera’s invention, however, numerous men and women have achieved immortality by mastering the novel art form.
This website offers a range of excellent photo galleries highlighting masterpieces by history’s greatest shutterbugs. Photographers featured in the gallery section include Ansel Adams (1902-1984), Henri Cartier Bresson (1908-2004) and Walker Evans (1903-1975), among many others.
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In Memoriam: 2015
a memorial by Steven H Silver
Science fiction fans have always had a respect and understanding for the history of the genre. Unfortunately, science fiction has achieved such an age that each year sees our ranks diminished. Deaths in 2015 included Alice K. Turner, Leonard Nimoy, Tanith Lee, Jon Arfstrom, George Clayton Johnson, Suzette Haden Elgin, Sir Terry Pratchett, Christopher Lee and Peter Dickinson.
The Blood Red City by Justin Richards
reviewed by Nathan Brazil
This is the second novel in the author’s Never War sequence, and as might be expected, picks up almost where the first book ended. Ambitiously, the action aliens and Nazis sprawl across the USA, Germany, the Greek island of Crete, occupied France, Stalin’s Russia, and good old Blighty. Once again it’s a hell-for-leather scramble between those loyal to the Third Reich or the Allies, with the alien Vril following their own agenda and playing both sides against the middle.
By Force of Arms by William C. Dietz
reviewed by Sandra Scholes
In the latest volume in the Legion of the Damned series, Booly comes back from the brink of what could have been disgrace as a hero to his men who risked their lives for freedom. Now Naa Commandos are set to protect him, yet assassins come to try and take over their encampment. The author fleshes out the characters and their lives, their doubts, loves and hopes. Booly’s rescue mission to get back Maylo gives us an idea of what kind of man he is, and what others think about him.
The Dark Arts of Blood by Freda Warrington
reviewed by Sandra Scholes
This story is separated into two parts with several smaller chapters that create an epic feel about it. These vampires seem more sophisticated than, say, the ones from a Stephen King novel. Their settings are bourgeois in their development and the characters never lose their edge. While the previous three novels have set the scene and developed the characters, this, the latest in the series, has a twist in the tale of which Sandra is very fond ever since reading Roald Dahl’s deliciously disturbing stories.
Of Bone and Thunder by Chris Evans
reviewed by Sandra Scholes
Every day the men of Red Shield have to face the Collective as they need to keep the Kingdom enemy free in Luitox. Here while they play the waiting game for their enemy to approach, we hear the war from several viewpoints during the story and many of the accounts aren’t what the Kingdom’s rulers might expect. The men are tired, hurt, stressed-out and at times bored out of their brains, and who can blame them? Their enemy is sneaky, dangerous and worthy of being feared as they never show themselves if they can help it, and they aren’t the sort of enemy who fights en masse.
The Oversight by Charlie Fletcher
reviewed by Nathan Brazil
This is the tale the last Hand; five people with supra-natural abilities, keeping the Law and Lore in an alternate Dickensian London. The Oversight was established to police and maintain the borders between the world of men and the darkly magical Sluagh. For many years an uneasy balance was achieved, mostly by mutual adherence to the rules that govern what is permitted from both sides. Then came the Disaster.
A Conversation With Rick Riordan
An interview with Steven H Silver
On merging Greek and Egyptian mythology:
” It wasn’t too difficult [to merge Greek and Egyptian mythology] because historically the Greeks and the Egyptians were
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