At Pornokitsch, friend of the Gutter Jared Shurin reads and reviews 31 self-published fantasy books to select a finalist. “The first step is to filter through the buffet of 301 books that have been sent my way. Although I’ll bring some fancy-shmancy grading criteria in later in the […]
Open Culture has an archive of 6,000 historical children’s books free for you to enjoy online! “Occupying a space somewhere between the purely didactic and the nonsensical, most children’s books published in the past few hundred years have attempted to find a line between the two poles, seeking […]
At Comics Beat, Heidi MacDonald talks about this week’s BookScan chart and the implications for comics. Plus, a lot more. “There is change in the air in comicbookland. It may be more than in the air…it may be in the streams, lakes and landfills, too. Maybe it’s here […]
“Marvel Comics has been having a rough time lately. Readers and critics met last year’s Civil War 2—a blockbuster crossover event (and a spiritual tie-in to the year’s big Marvel movie)—with disinterest and scorn. Two years of plummeting print comics sales culminated in a February during which only […]
G. Willow Wilson has a “long comic book” rant that makes some points about Ms. Marvel’s success, “diversity,” the rise of comics directed at young adults, and the direct market in comics in response to Marvel vice president of sales David Gabriel’s recent comments about diversity and Marvel’s […]
In honor of Shirley Jackson’s birthday, the Library of America has shared her “Biography of a Story” about the writing and reception of “The Lottery.” “It is probably the most famous work of fiction ever published in The New Yorker and certainly the magazine’s most controversial, generating letters […]
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