On June 20, 1975, two cinematic movements were born on the fins of one mighty fish. The latter was, of course, a great white shark, and the first movement was the invention of the blockbuster. Some might argue that happened three years earlier with The Godfather, but the majority opinion still holds for Jaws. And if Spielberg’s marine thriller loosened the hinges, George Lucas blew the doors off two years later with Star Wars. It’s a legendary start to a fascinating st...
Heinz Insu Fenkl was born in South Korea to a Korean mother and a German father who was a GI in the U.S. Army. He grew up in Korea until age twelve, then in Germany and the U.S. His autobiographical first novel, Memories of My Ghost Brother, a 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, draws upon his childhood, as does this second novel, which is set in part across the North Han River from Sambong-ni, his mother’s native village. "Skull Water was initially a memoir, and I drew extensively from my lif...
The Rollright Ritual William G. Gray 0 / 0 0 comments In the early 1970s the redoubtable old occultist William G. Gray bic...