Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”
The Smart Bitches and their readers talk about some people who aren’t there, behind their back even, readers who buy romance–and other books–without going online, but based on the covers at the grocery store, etc. The comment thread about how and where people find books is particularly worthwhile.
An exhaustive and illustrated guide to every video game reference in Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim. Get’em all.
Spinetingle has an interview with Champion Mojo Storyteller, Joe R. Lansdale: “I don’t mind a stimulus for a story-do something noir, etc., but I like to play with those expectations. Genre has its place…. But I don’t like genre to rule my reading. If I had, I’d have […]
MC Chris’s song, “Twin Peaks”: “This pie’s so good it is a crime.”
After ending his excellent gaming blog Hit Self Destruct, Duncan Fyfe has a new literary project, “Life Starts Here is a series of twelve stories inspired by the culture of video games.”
The original pitch for The Muppet Show. In memoriam, Jim Henson.
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