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Come to the Brooklyn Book Festival on September 21!

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My booth at last year's Brooklyn Book Festival. The weather was wonderful -- cross your fingers that it will be this year as well!

My booth at last year’s Brooklyn Book Festival. The weather was wonderful — cross your fingers that it will be this year as well!

Find me beneath the “Stephen Morris, Author” sign, on SEPTEMBER 21, 2014 from 10am-6pm. The festival will be held

Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza
209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn NY 11201

The festival can be easily reached by several subway lines:

take the M, R, 2, 3, 4, or 5 trains to Court St/Borough Hall, or take the A, C, F trains to Jay St/Borough Hall.

More information about the annual festival can be found here.

If you cannot drop by and say, “Hello!” at the Book Festival, you can order WOLFBANE on Amazon here.

Discount copies of the Come Hell or High Water trilogy will be available at the Brooklyn Book Festival as well. Buy a set of the entire trilogy and get a FREE copy of Wolfbane!

Marketa Lazarova

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A still shot from "Marketa Lazarova," the 1967 classic Czech fim, directed by Frantisek Vlacil.

A still shot from “Marketa Lazarova,” the 1967 classic Czech fim, directed by Frantisek Vlacil.

Are you looking for something to watch during these last couple of weeks before Labor Day? Marketa Lazarova is a classic of Czech filmmaking.

“Frantisek Vlacil’s atmospheric, symbol-charged medieval epic is a wide-screen black-and-white feast for the eyes.”
—J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

One of the crowning achievements of Czech cinema is this epic celluloid hallucination of savagery and mysticism in the Middle Ages. Centered around a violent feud between two 13th-century pagan clans, Marketa Lazarova is a riddle that’s not to be cracked (at least not on first viewing). Featuring a hypnotic dreamscape—hooded figures wandering through stark, barren landscapes and black wolves prowling virgin snow—and set to a thunderous, primordial soundtrack of clanging bells and liturgical chanting, the film’s lustrous, monochrome ’Scope cinematography gleams anew in this freshly struck 35mm print.

You can get it on Netflix, I think, and on Amazon. I saw it at a special BAM screening last spring and it was amazing. It reminded me of The Seventh Seal but it was also a very different movie. I highly recommend it!

A Janus Films release.