Valeria Brancaforte’s Hand-Printed Books
The Book Design Blog has a gallery of Valeria Brancaforte’s hand-printed books.
“The Ministry of Sickness and Death”
Jake Adelstein has shared an unpublished chapter of his book Tokyo Vice online. “This chapter never made the final cut of Tokyo Vice because it’s not about crime or the underworld. It is about the battle to tell the truth when it is inconvenient for the powers that […]
Deserve’s got nothing to do with it
As soon as the old detective starts talking about buying a boat and all the fish he’s going to catch, or what the view will be like from his back window when he retires, you pretty much know he’s not gonna make it. Or maybe he will, but […]
“Lights Out, Please”
“Lights Out, Please combines retellings of traditional ghost stories and urban legends, alongside new, personal stories from a variety of international authors in order to tell others about the kinds of fears we live with. We tell our stories as a ghost story or urban legend to get people […]
The Future of the Culture Wars is Here”
Deadspin writes about Gamergate in the context of the culture wars. The Washington Post‘s blog, The Intersect has a guide to Gamergate. “By design, Gamergate is nearly impossible to define. It refers, variously, to a set of incomprehensible Benghazi-type conspiracy theories about game developers and journalists; to a […]
“Not A Manifesto”
At Antipope, Charles Stross shares why he’s moving from writing science fiction to urban fantasy: “Over the past few years I’ve found myself reading less and less far-future SF and more and more urban fantasy. If you view it through the lens of the future we’re living in […]
The Cultural Gutter 