Women Destroy Science Fiction
Read stories, essays and excerpts from Lightspeed magazine’s “Women Destroy Science Fiction” issue, which just happened to win a 2015 British Fantasy Award!
George R.R. Martin on the Hugos
Game Of Thrones author George R. R. Martin has written a series of posts on the current state of the Hugo Awards and the nomination process.
Chad Stahelski and David Leitch on Stunts and Oscars
At Playboy, Marc Bernardin talks to stunt performers/stunt coordinators/directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch about the Academy Awards unwillingess to create a category for stunts. “There is sort of also this sort of bravado stunt men have had since the beginning. We’re the guys behind the guys and […]
“The Pain of the Watermelon Joke”
Author Jacqueline Woodson writes about her memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, growing up in South Carolina and Daniel Handler’s watermelon joke directed at her at the National Book Awards. “I would have written Brown Girl Dreaming if no one had ever wanted to buy it, if it went nowhere […]
“We Need Diverse Books”
The Washington Post has a transcript of American Born Chinese and Boxers & Saints creator Gene Luen Yang’s speech at the 2014 National Book Festival Gala. “We’re afraid of writing characters different from ourselves because we’re afraid of getting it wrong. We’re afraid of what the Internet might […]
Interview with Alison Bechdel
NPR interviews cartoonist Alison Bechdel on the occasion of her MacArthur Genius Grant. “I guess I’m proudest of just really sticking with this odd thing I loved and was good at — drawing comics about marginal people (lesbians) in a marginal format (comics). I never thought much about […]
The Cultural Gutter 