The 2011 Kitschies are accepting submissions for their tentacular awards celebrating books that “best elevate the tone of genre literature.” Read submission criteria, guidelines and check out past winners of the coveted Red, Gold, Black and Inky Tentacle (for cover art) awards here!
Due to a personal emergency, Romance Editor Chris Szego won’t be able to post a new article this week. She will be back next month. Enjoy this timely piece, originally published in 2009. I’ve put it off long enough. Thought, ‘We can get into that later’, and ‘I […]
Kate Elliott talks about inspiration in fiction and getting excited about books: “When I fall in love with a novel that I haven’t written, one of the reasons I fall in love with it is exactly that I couldn’t have written it.”
Science studies whether spoilers spoil. Strangely enough, they might not. Even more strangely, they might make the spoiled story more enjoyable.
Ursula K. Le Guin swears like a motherfucker in a piece about swearing : “So God is dead, at least as a swearword; but hate and feces keep going strong. Le roi est mort, vive le fucking roi.”
The Cultural Gutter book is now available! Enjoy the Gutter as a hardcopy (hooray for the codex!), on your e-reader or as an e-book online! And if you like it, please vote it up on Boing Boing’s Submitterator! Thanks, Drew, artist EJ Lee and everyone at Carnegie-Mellon University’s […]
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The Cultural Gutter 