Your Own Private FanTasia
Sad you didn’t make it to Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival? Ease the pain with an interview with Gordon Liu. (Thanks, Colin!)
Guttersnipe
Just a critter in the Gutter.
The End Justifies the Means
From kids tricked into destroying the earth when they think they’re destroying Venus to inch high Martians to a time traveling Benedict Arnold, every writing workshop should teach these “Ten Ways To End A Story.”
A Million Different Earths, A Million Different Movies
Grady Hendrix muses on the alternate cuts of films for different festivals, different countries and different regions. “A million different earths, and on every one of them, an alternate cut of Days of Being Wild.”
Indy Rocks, Indy 1 That Is
Perhaps it’s the inevitable problem of sequels, after a movie like Raiders of the Lost Ark that’s structured very tightly: “Therefore, he can’t begin his journey with the motivation of “keeping the Ark’s power out of the hands of the Nazis”, because he simple doesn’t believe there’s any […]
“Laughter is Just a Slowed Down Scream of Terror”
Elizabeth Hand remembers Thomas Disch: “An openly gay man for most of his working life, Disch wrote mysteries, historical novels and neo-gothic satires; children’s books, including ‘The Brave Little Toaster’ and its sequel; at least five collections of short fiction; 15 volumes of poetry, always as Tom Disch; […]
Mysterious Lady
We have saying in our bookstore: Frontlist may bring customers through the door, but it’s the backlist that brings them back. Book lovers are completists. Bookstores that can fill the gaps in their ever-increasing collections quickly become favourite stops. There’s nothing quite like the satisfaction of putting it […]
The Cultural Gutter 