http://www.demimonde.com M.K. Hobson | Necrophilatelist Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:22:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.demimonde.com/2010/09/09/come-to-my-powells-books-reading/ http://www.demimonde.com/2010/09/09/come-to-my-powells-books-reading/#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:33:59 +0000 M.K. Hobson http://www.demimonde.com/?p=2779 Just a reminder to mark your calendars: One week from today, on September 16th, at 7 p.m., I will be reading from THE NATIVE STAR at Powell’s Books in Beaverton. There will also be a 19th century trivia contest with prizes! I won’t say what the prizes are precisely, but I can promise you [...]]]> http://www.demimonde.com/2010/09/09/come-to-my-powells-books-reading/feed/ 10 http://www.demimonde.com/2009/11/19/an-embarrassment-of-bookly-riches/ http://www.demimonde.com/2009/11/19/an-embarrassment-of-bookly-riches/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:56:51 +0000 M.K. Hobson http://www.demimonde.com/?p=1092 Today’s mail brought quite a lovely shower of books, as I got a delivery from Amazon.com and one from PS Publishing. The PS Publishing one contained my contributor’s copies for Postscripts 19, “The Enemy of the Good” and man, are they pretty. Amazing quality binding, paper, art, everything. And I think this is the [...]]]> http://www.demimonde.com/2009/11/19/an-embarrassment-of-bookly-riches/feed/ 22 http://www.demimonde.com/2009/09/22/bartelby-the-scrivener/ http://www.demimonde.com/2009/09/22/bartelby-the-scrivener/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:03:57 +0000 M.K. Hobson http://www.demimonde.com/?p=576 You know what astonishes me? That there are so many “must reads” of literature, that I, a robed and hooded graduate of the University of Oregon’s hallowed English Literature program, have not read. I spent last evening rectifying one of these egregious oversights by reading “Bartelby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville. I’ve never read [...]]]> http://www.demimonde.com/2009/09/22/bartelby-the-scrivener/feed/ 36