Rebeca Schiller used to call her site something like, “I’m at the beach,” and I got pulled in by the beautiful photograph of a white sand beach somewhere I am not. Later she changed it to Alvah’s Books after the “Hollywood Ten” screenwriter Alvah Bessie, who stood up, alongside Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and seven other Hollywood stars, to Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon and their insanely-unconstitutional 1950s witchhunt for Communists, the now-notorious House Un-American Activities investigation.
Rebeca and I have been talking about the new fad of literary mashing and realized it’s not so much new as simply misunderstood.
Please join us for Literary Mashing, or Zombies Don’t Dance at Alvah’s Books.