The first volume of Mark Twain’s autobiography (!) is about to be released.
literature
After watching his excellent Bloggingheads dialogue, I stumbled across the website of Canadian science fiction author Peter...
“This book was one of my earliest introductions to fantasy and thus to the limits (or lack...
Will linked us to this piece by James Bowman earlier. Bowman writes: I mention this difference between...
Tyler Cowen and Peter Suderman have both compiled (non-definitive) lists of books which have influenced them the...
Salon captures Austen’s enduring appeal:
A few people have objected to a Naomi Wolf article on pornography I linked to earlier. If...
Fantasy is a genre dominated by sword-and-sorcery epics, mysterious dragons, and tyrannical sorcerers. Few fantasy novels have...
This sort of thing really pisses me off. For more on the CPSIA and dangerous, lead-inked vintage...
I saw the Broadway production of Wicked this past weekend. It was very good. An under study...
I stumbled across this short essay from February by Richard Morgan whose book, The Steel Remains, I...
So in the comments to this post, I received a lot of reading suggestions for good fantasy. ...
The other day I was sitting around drinking beers with a friend and talking about magic. Specifically,...
Well, it looks like HBO will begin shooting the pilot episode for George R. R. Martin’s A...
