The Mythical Man Month

For everyone who believes that fact is stranger than fiction there can be nothing in the world more fascinating than the search for the truth behind the most extraordinary mysteries and myths of the Twentieth Century.

“The funny thing is,” Neil Hannon tells Apple Music, “for all my high-minded objectives in lyrics, I'm really just trying to sing in tune most of the time. You'd be surprised how hard it is.” Self-deprecation has been at the heart of The Divine Comedy’s appeal since Hannon emerged in the late 1980s. But 11 often exquisite and always arch indie-pop albums in, the band is a low-key national treasure. Hannon’s 12th Divine Comedy offering is “roughly based around the nonsense that goes on in the workplace”—and the irrepressible rise of machines. “The machines thing is really born out of my frustration with my own inability to communicate with them,” Hannon says. “They literally don’t like me.” Negotiate Office Politics here, with his track-by-track guide.

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, April 2013: Imaginative and meticulously researched, this enchanting debut novel from Helene Wecker is, in reality, an historical fiction. Set primarily in turn-of-the-century Manhattan, it deliberately details the immigrant experience–the wonders and hardships of being in a new country and the discoveries, triumphs, and failures that follow–while bringing the city itself to life with such passion that New York of yore seems like a magical land. Beyond reality, however, The Golem and the Jinni, as the title implies, is also a fantastic work of fantasy.

For Elvis fans, it's Christmas every day! As if the royal archives were a bottomless pit. And when you imagine the unreleased out of stock, Legacy Recordings releases new rarities like a magician showing a rabbit in his hat. On the menu for the summer of 2019, this crazy Live 1969, box set maousse (216 titles!) Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Elvis concerts at the International Hotel in Las Vegas. After eight years of absence, the King was back on stage by polling 57 concerts showing all full! It is during these shows where he is supported by choirs, Imperials and Sweet Inspirations and musicians side, a large band and a group that will become the TCB Band, which he will sing for the first time live his mythical Suspicious Minds.

, that fictional Master of the Mystic Arts and later Sorcerer Supreme of the Marvel Omniverse, first appeared in Marvel's science-fiction/fantasy/suspense comic book anthology series in July 1963 as a creation of comic book legends Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. At that time Strange Tales already began featuring Marvel's Silver Age superheroes along with its sci-fi/suspense stories as backup and the first superhero regularly featured was the Human Torch of the Fantastic Four, Johnny Storm. When Doctor Strange appeared, became a "split book" format, and Doctor Strange shared billing with the Human Torch until until issue (July 1965), and then super spy Nick Fury until issue (May 1968). Strange appeared in , skipped two issues then returned in before his eight-page origin story appeared in (Dec. 1963), continuously in 9-10 page features until ; the following month Doctor Strange's adventures continued in the new full-length (the numbering from Strange Tales was just continued). In all these, I believe the Stan Lee-Steve-Ditko collaboration from through to be the best and the most original, especially with Steve Ditko's fantastic, surreal backgrounds and landscapes. All of Doctor Strange's feature appearances as handled by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko are included in this compilation, complete.