RIP, Davy Jones
At the Sunset Gun, Kim Morgan says good-bye to Davy Jones.
The Last Canadian
Grady Hendrix reads London Free Press editor William C. Heine’s The Last Canadian, a plague-driven, apocalyptic pulp set in Montreal. Unfortunately, the protagonist’s citizenship papers haven’t come through before the plague hits. For Canadian pulp fiction featuring full Canadian citizens, check out Tales from the Vault, curated by […]
Looking Back on Shirley Jackson
Kyla Ward looks back on the work of writer and horror icon, as author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson, in an issue of Tabula Rasa from 1995. “To say Shirley Jackson is a psychological novelist, and that the horror in her stories […]
The script for Buckaroo Banzai
“Buckaroo, I don’t know what to say. Lectroids? Planet 10? Nuclear extortion? A girl named, ‘John?’” The script for The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. (via @AwesomeBMovies)
USA Today Interviews Beverly Jenkins
Author Beverly Jenkins talks with USA Today about writing romance rooted in 19th Century African-American history as well as her new projects and favorite authors. “I got a bit of push back because publishers didn’t seem to know what to make of my story. It was based on […]
“The Book Surgeon”
Brian Dettmer carves art out of obsolescent encyclopedias and text books with surgical precision. My Modern Met has a small gallery of his work and an interview with Dettmer.
