2011 Hatchet is ONLINE!

[Stefani]

Issue #28, the first issue of four for this year, is now online for subscribers to enjoy!

http://www.hatchetonline.com/HatchetOnline/index.htm

You can subscribe for the four issue year for one low price of $35 at the link above.

This issue is 118 pages in length and includes the first and only full-length interview with Michael Martins and Dennis Binette on the writing of Parallel Lives!

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[mbhenty]

Yes, nice to see the Hatchet finally arrive.

Quite the extensive interview with the authors of the upcoming PARALLEL LIVES titled book on Lizzie Borden and her contemporaries.

At about 27 pages, it is almost one quarter of the page count of this issue, with a very insightful candid conversation with the authors and a must read for anyone interested in purchasing the book.

But, for some reason not quite clear, this issue was more like giving birth, than publishing and pumping out a periodical.

Now, let us all feed the baby and subscribe.

Happy reading.

[Fargo]

I will read this and get the printed copy later as well.

[diana]

I just finished Kat Koorey’s wonderful essay on Jack the Ripper -- which I came to from a point of ignorance – never having studied ‘Ripperology’ because I'm not much interested in serial killers. But Kat’s broader take on these crimes is well worth the read and makes me want to dig deeper into the enduring mystery.

Proof that it is indeed ‘enduring’ comes with an article that ran as recently as two weeks ago in London’s Sunday Telegraph, which says author Trevor Marriott is attempting to obtain four thick ledgers on the Ripper case from Scotland Yard. These contain details from police informants from 1888-1912, some of whom spoke to police during the original investigation. Marriott, whose book names Carl Feigenbaum as a suspect in the murders, says the ledgers name at least four new suspects and contain other key information. He’s gone to a tribunal in a final attempt to have the information released but the Yard contends that “unveiling the files could deter informants from coming forward in future, and could even put off members of the public from phoning CrimeStoppers or the anti-terrorist hotline.” Seriously? The tribunal will probably rule later this year. Devotees of the Ripper mystery must be as frustrated by this kind of thinking as Bordenites are by their inability to access the Robinson papers.

[Fargo]

All Scotland Yard has to do is point out that everyone involved in this case is long dead.

As long as Scotland Yard offers some guarantee that information like this will only be released in cases such as this which are very old, then modern day informants should have nothing to fear.

I would like to encourage other forum members including myself to be more active in reading and commenting on the Hatchet articles.

I am very behind in doing so. I need to take notes and go back and comment on ddnoe's Whittlings as well as other articles by other authors.

With our interest in the Borden case I feel I owe the Hatchet writers at least that much.

I have been too far behind on too many things.

[mbhenty]

Yes Fargo:

kudos are always appreciated by a writer and those of the HATCHET are no exception.

Though positives are heartfelt by those who toil with pen and keyboard, most would welcome critical and judgmental, if not contrary opinion on a piece.

My experience here on this forum is that most members have only good things to say about the articles and poems.



But the most constructive appraisals are the opposing analytical investigational ones.

I am not condoning that one should be mean or unkind, but honest.

So, if you see a topic in a different light, if your ideas or understanding, beliefs are not agreeable with an author, it is better to let him/she know than to read their work and say nothing at all.

And if you love what you read, it's not necessary to talk about. A two or three word praise goes a long way.

Remember: It is better to be talked about than not to be talked about. So claimed fellow writer Oscar Wilde.

Thus. Let's hear what you think.

[diana]

Here are a few more comments on this edition of the Hatchet.

Michael Brimbau’s nostalgia piece skilfully weaves childhood reminiscences into past and present geographical outlines of Fall River while dropping in interesting tidbits relating to our Lizzie -- Denise Noe’s article on Battleship Cove is tightly packed with facts (although I wondered a bit about its inclusion in a magazine about things Victorian as the earliest reference is to events in the early 1940’s -- still, Denise is always worth a read) -- Stefani’s fascinating interview only piqued my excitement about Parallel Lives -- and as usual, Sherry Chapman’s humor just flat out lights up my life.

That’s as far as I’ve got in my reading....

[Nadzieja]

Just waiting for the print edition so I can read it in bed, it seems the only time I get to read lately is before going to sleep. Of course I stay up later if it's something good!

[Nadzieja]

I also forgot to say I can't wait to read about Parallel Lives, and anxious to read the new Lizzie Borden Girl Detective. MMMM, I might not get to sleep that night.