Forum: The Reading Room

As far as I can tell, there is no other thread devoted to comics books of the Golden Age (c.1938-1956), so let's start one. Post photos of your...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/books/04preppy.html?hpw Yes, an updated version of The Preppy Handbook is coming. I am embarrassed to say that I...

Hi all - Just wondering if any of you write fiction set during the Golden Era. I'm currently working on a WWII fiction novel and have another...

http://www.thepassivevoice.com/01/2013/h-l-mencken-interview/

Tell us about your entry into "Papa's World"! How long have you been reading his works? What do you like about Ernest Hemingway's writings? How...

Any fand here? I like the mindless adventure, exotic locales, and airships, autogyros, machine pistols, etc. I started reading them in the 70s...

http://www.npr.org/2013/04/14/176920218/after-tragedy-young-girl-shipped-west-on-orphan-train

Any one aware of the work of Howard Pease? He wrote a great many stories about the merchant marine in the 1930s. Quite a few of his books were a...

I was discussing an upcoming comic book project on another website and, though the project is a western I described it as Noir. Someone wrote in and...

Does anyone still fire off an indignant hand written letter? Are you saddened by the decline of good grammar and punctuation? For me, I rarely...

This German magazine looks pretty awesome: http://theheritagepost.com/ Sadly (for me anyway:eusa_doh:), the text is in German.

thus one can use in poetry names of Greek shepards one can attempt to catch the colour of the morning sky write of love and also once again in...

http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/porfirio-rubirosa-last-of-the-famous-international-playboys/

Hi! So my favorite vintage era is the 1930's and I have found with another of my favorites the 1910's that a great way to learn about the era is...

I was watching a morning show and they were talking about this book. http://books.simonandschuster.com.au/EUGENIA/Mark-Tedeschi/9781922052292 About...

I'm a fan, as I find the books as very atmospheric. I can follow Maigret around Paris quite easily. My partner, though has never read one. Any...

http://www.google.com/search?q=magazine&hl=el&biw=1280&bih=642&sa=X&ei=pbFWUa6VMabF7AaW7IHYAQ&ved=0CCUQpwUoBA&source=lnt&tbs=bkv%3Af%2Ccdr%3A1%2Ccd_mi...

I think you may be amused by this advertisement for a magazine called 'The Chap' that has a cult following in the UK. See if you pass the quiz. ...

I've been reading since I was a toddler, and have always enjoyed a good book. But there is a particular thing about original volumes, books with a...

A novel by Ishmael Reed. It was published in '71 or 2 but the story takes place in 1920s New York, Harlem. It was one of the books that influenced...

Just got off the phone with my mother. She said that apparently her aunt is on the cover of a magazine, but she doesn't know which title. The lady...