Books about sword and sorcery

[garbanzo]

I'm building out a collection and want help filling in the gaps.

I don't want author bios or books of letters. I prefer some level of analysis or literary criticism.

I also don't want to step on the slippery slope of fanzines, that would get expensive quickly.

My library so far: 

[irondavith]

This is something I'm also interested in, so I will follow the thread.

I just bought Barbarian Life vol 1, and plan to restart the CtB series and read at the same time. I'm really enjoying my SSOC omnibuses though, so it will have to wait a little while!

Actually, on that note, the omnibuses have lots of extras and some discussions about what you've mentioned. Probably not exactly what you're looking for, just a thought.

[garbanzo]

Yeah there are a lot of great "extras" in the omnis. I have been buying the CtB omnis, but not the SSoC since I have all the original mags.

I'd love to buy a hardcover volume of just the extras from each run of omnis, but that'll never happen...