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Marty has a heart of gold. He once told me the story of slapper joe, the ostrich who ate from the ketchup jar with cartoon like precision. He lost a finger for that. Thank you, Marty!-Gabriela, paper connoisseur, Los Angeles

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The Many Colors of Angus Scrimm or: You Can Learn A Lot from a Tall Man

Because I travel in elite circles, I managed to get Angus Scrimm to write something appropriate on my copy of “Phantasm.”

What Stephen King taught me about child abuse

“He knows what scares you,” said my friend Brad Moore of Stephen King when we were both in fifth grade. Brad was a precocious reader who read for fun, and he suggested I read “The Shining.”

And some of the images in that book, snow falling from an advancing hedge animal, a glimpse of [...]