Tag: Theodore Sturgeon
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Theodore Sturgeon and Ellery Queen
If it’s true that Theodore Sturgeon “suffered from writer’s block for many years at a time,” as Eric Weeks and Bill Seabrook tell us on the Theodore Sturgeon Page, then all I can say is, when Sturgeon was on, he was prodigiously ON. I’ve written elsewhere about a book called I, Libertine, which Sturgeon authored as…
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Fake Book
Jean Shepherd was called “the first radio novelist” by media scholar Marshall McLuhan. He is probably most famous for narrating the 1983 movie A Christmas Story, which was based on his book In God We Trust (All Others Pay Cash), a collection of stories he first told on the radio about his childhood in Hammond,…