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"All About Amy" is the ultimate femme fatale story.
It is has great romance, it has action and suspense and great villains. It has paranormal spookiness. It is a road novel about two characters we come to care about. And it is a great romantic adventure story that never fails to deliver.
Also recommended: Little Girl Lost by Richard Aleas, Guilty Pleasures by Laura K Hamilton, I Did by Cara Lockwood

Kiyooka was a well known painter who turned to music, photography, and poetry as alternate expressions of a burning creativity. His death in 1994 occurred just when he was at a critical stage of his Collected Poems (he was found, dead, slumped over his word processor), and the work was finished after his death by a friend, Roy Miki, who published the book under the title PACIFIC WINDOWS. Miki and Kiyooka shared a common background as artists of Japanese-Canadian descent; Miki turns up as one of the speakers at a 1999 Vancouver conference devoted to Kiyooka's contributions to the art and writing scene in BC, and a transcript of this conference became the basis for ALL AMAZED, the book that feisty little Arsenal Pulp Press issued in 2002 in collaboration with the Belkin Gallery at UBC and with COLLAPSE magazine.

A friend pointed out Roy Kiyooka to me many years back, he was a tiny man who fairly glowed with a vibrant, sonorous energy. I heard him talking before I could see him. The editors of ALL AMAZED have included some papers given on his art practice and on his poetry, and they made a risky choice by printing a verbatim transcription of the "multi media" presentation of October 1, 1999. It's a sketchy transcription because often the sound system broke down, and when that happens, the editors just skip right over whoever was talking and whatever might have been happening onstage, and pick up whenever the power returned. I would have thought that with a bit of work they might have been able to reconstruct more of what was said and done that day: they could have asked the participants for their speeches, perhaps; I can only assume that the random element was something, perhaps, that they found apropos to Kiyooka's spirit, perhaps even a charming, "amateur hour" simplicity to it that submerged other editorial decisions into an old fashioned game of "telephone."

Why on earth, for example, when Carole Itter apparently pre-empted Roy Miki's idea to read aloud from Kiyooka's lengthy "All Amazed" poem, do the editors print the poem twice to show that first she read from it, than he did? Couldn't they just say, "see above"? Or would be disrespectful to one or the other of them? Maybe it was their way of saying, Roy would have liked this crazy, jumbled presentation. Glen Lowry provides some photographs which must be very evocative to those who were there, but otherwise they're slightly muddy.

Recommended first of all for those who would like to know something about Roy Miyooka, and afterwards for people who would like a closeup lesson in the industry of memorializing.

Activist and art critic Allan Antliff presents Anarchy and Art: From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall, a thoughtful philosophical discussion of art's potential as a conduit to carry messages of revolution and meaningful social change. Focusing on critical moments since the nineteenth century when artists, poets, philosophers, and critics have dared to speak their voice concerning pivotal events, Anarchy and Art complements its text with a number of black-and-white illustrations and a few color plates of provocative works. Anarchy and Art is not a politically neutral examination, reflecting the author's leftist tendencies and commitment to activism, yet its core message about the role of art as a media that can sway hearts and minds resounds fervently in the mind of the reader.

Not a review, but some book information from the publisher, Big Engine, which would give potential buyers valuable details of this edition (by the way, the Pulp Publishing edition of this books is out of print):

Does Interzone need an introduction? The Ant-Men of Tibet & Other Stories is a brand new collection of ten of its most significant stories in recent years: flamboyant space opera, chilly thrillers, contemplation and comic fantasy. All are by authors who had their first or near-first sales to the magazine and every new story opens up a completely new world with fresh visions and ideas. Buy this book and bask in the diversity that is British SF.

Stephen Baxter: The Ant-Men of Tibet

Alastair Reynolds: Byrd Land Six

Chris Beckett: The Warrior Half-and-Half

Keith Brooke: The People of the Sea

Eugene Byrne: Alfred's Imaginary Pestilence

Nicola Caines: Civilization

Jayme Lynn Blaschke: The Dust

Molly Brown: The Vengeance of Grandmother Wu

Peter T. Garratt: The Collectivization of Transylvania

Eric Brown: Vulpheous

Christian Gaudreault and Star Spilos, owners Vancouver's award-winning Tomato Fresh Food Cafe, present As Fresh As It Gets: Everyday Recipes from the Tomato Fresh Food Cafe, a cookbook emphasizing recipes that can easily be made with ingredients available anywhere. From Heirloom Tomato Salad to Rigatoni with Chorizo, Brussel Sprouts with Chili Orange Maple Butter, Chocolate Mint & Pistachio Pesto, and much more, these delicious recipes balance succulent natural flavor and healthful living. Tomatoes are prominently featured of course, but As Fresh As It Gets is far from a mono-food themed cookbook; the available courses to delight the palate are sure to please homestyle chefs of all backgrounds, palates, and experience levels. Highly recommended.

This collection is not only beautiful but hugely significant in the marking of a totally unique Black Experience. Congratulations to Mr.Compton for bringing this to light! The history of the western most province in Canada is unusual in that it is one of very few places that does not, or rather, no longer, has a centralised black Community.A positive aspect of this is that it is not a ghettoised community. The difficult part is that one can have the sense that this still significant and growing community is permanently fractured. What Compton does so well is bring this unique history together.This beautiful blues people pioneering history appears alongside the children of hiphop now. One gets an overview that stretches and eases into that phat orange Pacific sunset.

The book is an inspired Rocky Mountain solid collection of historical document and contemporary prose and poetry .

Recline and read.

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This is the most complete pulp data and price reference in print. Simply put, there is no better. Contains listings for over 1300 titles with 1000's of prices. Over 180 cover artists and 400 authors are cross referenced. The result of years of research and data accumulation and tabulation.

It is evident that Cathy Baker developed a close relationship with Dard Hunter while she labored through the endless research required to produce this thorough and engaging biography of one of America's outstanding graphic designers and scholors. She was able to establish the relationship without compromising her objectivity. Hunter's greatness is lavishly detailed without placing him among the gods. Here is a very human man who quietly achievied greatness. I'll read this one again.

The book suffers from being far too personal, and lacks detail. Anecdotes abound, but they are, in toto, not particularly interesting or helpful ones, mostly along the lines of childhood vacations to the beach and the like. After the first 25 pages I became frustrated with the fact that his story and ideas had progressed no further. Clearly a novelist of great potentials, he is nevertheless mistaken if he believes that an unconnected narrative (with whole chapters almost reading like store catalogues) is the defining characteristic of the time. But, once you get at least 50 pages into the book you will not stop reading it. The author sustains the plot while challenging us to consider reality and progress.

Murders, suicide and incest give a gothic aura to the tale, but then no one should underestimate the horrors of that handful of half-cocked insights - the type that flit through your head while brushing your teeth in the morning - that actually develop into a collection of oddly believable urban myths. You'll be surprised how many of them you've heard and believed to be true! Don't miss the chapter that compares "The Wizard of Oz" with anarcho-capitalism. A good critique of government education is also offered as well as a two part section on monopolies. But, the author should read Hayek and then rewrite this book. For sure it would be better then and certainly more accurate, as one must know the meaning of the term before pronunciation becomes an issue.

The language was excessively complex, but anyone interested in rationality and departures from rationality, anyone who is fantastic at bringing sexual tension and the macabre to the surface of fairy tales and folklore, anyone who can enjoy an 11-minute vacation and come back with something to think about, anyone seriously interested in politics and theology, anyone that wishes to understand how the author thought about these problems should read this book.