John A. Keel

Pulp Friction

by John Lacey on April 19, 2010

Due to a rather unfortunate printing error Penguin Books Australia has pulped a run of its cookbook, the Pasta Bible.

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Do Authors Frequent Secondhand Bookstores?

by John Lacey on November 2, 2009

After completing my first 2047 words of NaNoWriMo yesterday, I headed off to a local book fete (a fundraiser for a rural firefighter service). I scanned all the titles haphazardly scattered across tables. There was a piece of non-fiction among the ‘fifty cent novels.’ Sections bled into each other. I noticed another fifty cent novel from a very prolific and successful Australian author (who I know is on Twitter). And in light of this and NaNoWriMo, a new thought occurred to me…

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Death and Legacy

by John Lacey on July 29, 2009

I wondered too what it was about death that made us reflect upon an artist’s works, and why living artists were only as good as their most recent offering… What could we, as artists, do to better represent not just our most recent work but our entire repetoires?

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John A. Keel, My Hero

by John Lacey on July 16, 2009

There were even more sinister and oddball things covered in the book that the movie didn’t even make reference to. But even more than that it introduced me to John A. Keel, the author, who was thoughtful and intelligent.

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