A short film about my book collecting, that also goes some way to explaining the genesis of Tartarus Press...
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From Fifty Forgotten Records: Ambient: Stars of the Lid - The Ballasted Orchestra
For many years, I had no interest in ambient music. I could not see the point of anything that merely played in the background, whether...
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I first came across the books of T. Lobsang Rampa when I was a teenager. His Corgi paperbacks were always in the New Age, Mind/Body/Spi...
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There is nothing like publishing a book for flushing out new information—material it would have been useful to have included! It was only af... -
In The Third Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (Fontana/Collins, 1966) Robert Aickman wrote: Of ‘The Beckoning Fair One ’ [by O...
I too collected books just to collect at one time but am now also only buying books I intend to read. Space, time and finances are my primary drivers. Space is the most serious problem forcing me to store lots of less valuable books in storage boxes. Finding a climate controlled environment to keep them is a challenge.
ReplyDeleteGreat piece on the allure of real books Ray. Makes you wonder what ebook readers will have to look back on in the future.
ReplyDeleteWatching this silently at the mo, will go home and watch properly - but how wonderful to see Miss H in the original cover! I hadn't seen it before.
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