Great Lives: Patricia Highsmith
Director Jonathan Kent picks Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley) for BBC Radio 4’s Great Lives. (Thanks, Kate!)
“Literature’s Most Curious Creations”
Smithsonian has an interview with Edward Brooke-Hitching on “literary curiosities” and his book, The Madman’s Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities From History. “You realize everyone has their own form of curiosities, and that as a species, we’ve always been incredibly strange and weird, but […]
Bitches on Comics: “What do you think of Black Magick“
There’s a new episode of Bitches on Comics, featuring friend of the Gutter Sara Century: “In this week’s episode, we answer a question about Black Magick, written by Greg Rucka, art by Nicola Scott, Color Assists by Chiara Arena, and Letters by Jodi Wynne. We talk about the […]
“An interview with the Guy Who Yells ‘Mortal Kombat’ in the theme for Mortal Kombat”
“The song’s real title is ‘Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat),’ and it’s by Lords of Acid members Praga Khan and Olivier Adams, aka the Immortals. But the guy who actually yells, ‘Mortal Kombat,‘ Texas-based actor Kyle Wyatt, wasn’t involved with the song’s recording. Instead, he’d yelled ‘Mortal Kombat!’ while […]
“Them is pure degredation porn”
At Vulture, Angelica Jade Bastién writes about the Amazon series, Them (2021). “In 2018, the artist Lorraine O’Grady said at a Brooklyn Museum book event, “In the future, white supremacy will no longer need white people.” That future is now. O’Grady’s belief nods to the ways the structures […]
“The Remarkable Influence of A Wrinkle in Time“
At Smithsonian Magazine, Natalie Escobar looks at “how Madeleine L’Engle liberated young adult literature.”
The Cultural Gutter 