This week’s Guest Star is long time friend of the Gutter Jared Shurin. Jared is the editor of The Big Book of Cyberpunk. His previous anthologies have been finalists for (and usually lost) the Hugo Awards, World Fantasy Award, British Science Fiction Awards, and British Fantasy Awards. He’s […]
Friend of the Gutter Mimi Kramer writes about they mystery of Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchock’s Psycho (1960)! “It’s become fashionable among Hitchcock fans and aficionados to dismiss the $40,000 Marion steals as a ‘McGuffin,’ the term Hitchcock invented for whatever sets the plot of a picture in […]
Merchant and Ivory’s India-set films tend to rip out my heart and stomp on it—in a good way. Two years ago I wrote about Shakespeare-Wallah for Switcheroo Month, and here I am again, this time with a sort of bildungsroman, complicated by imperial socio-political goings-on. Heat and Dust […]
The Library of America’s Story of the Week site has Joanna Russ’ short story, “A Game of Vlet,” with some commentary by Samuel Delany! Read it here.
At The Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins consider WRATH with two films, Mirch Masala (1987) and the snake lady classic, Nagin (1976)! “It’s 2024 and if women aren’t angry or wrathful they’re just not paying attention. The women in our chosen films […]
The Beat has a sweet Valentine’s manga list: ”Welcome to The Beat‘s 2024 Valentine’s Day Manga Extravaganza! Worldwide, romance is in the air this time of year. To celebrate, here are 14 of the best romantic manga of all time to celebrate Valentine’s Day on February 14, 2024. Did […]
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