Cats On Film
Author Anne Billson has created a blog dedicated to cats and film called “Cats On Film.” I’ll leave you to your browsing. (Thanks, Kate!)
“Le Bestiare Fabuleux”
“A mid-20th century collaboration between artists, poets and printers gave rise to a unique book of surrealistic creatures accompanied by complementary typographic art poems.” See more at BibliOdyssey. (Thanks, Andrezo!)
Interview with Filmmaker Peter Strickland
The Gutter’s own Carol interviews Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio; The Duke of Burgundy) about his films, sound design, mole crickets, pheromonal perfume and the pressure to put on a persona. Read it at the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Vanguard Program blog.
“44 Medieval Beasts That Cannot Even Handle It Right Now”
A gallery of Medieval European beasts and creatures who can’t even.
Seven Strange “Indian” Creatures
Friend of the Gutter, Samit Basu shares “7 Strange ‘Indian’ Creatures” at Huffington Post. “I’ve never written an “about India” book — the closest I’ve come is setting large parts of a superhero novel, Turbulence, in India — but I did notice several British and American reviewers mentioning that […]
An Excerpt from Resistance
Tor has an excerpt from Resistance, the latest book by friend of the Gutter, Samit Basu: “A giant lobster rises slowly out of Tokyo Bay. It is an old-school kaiju, 300 feet long, and stands upright, its hind limbs still under water, in defiance of biology, physics and […]
