At Tor.com, Chris Lough writes about the problems with J.K. Rowling’s “The History of Magic of North America.” “Fiction is a story we create, and history is a story we find, but the opposite is also true, and this makes the structure of both very similar. In this […]
At Mythcreants, Chris Winkle writes about the difference between overland travel in fantasy and in historical reality. “Many fantasy stories involve traveling from one city to another, often in worlds without engine technology. Before cars and trains, traveling over land was exhausting and dangerous. The logistics of a […]
At Comics Alliance, Chris Sims writes a tribute to comics creator Bill Finger: “If Batman was the only character that Finger had ever worked on, that would still be one of the most impressive accomplishments in comic book history. Working with artists like Jerry Robinson, Dick Sprang, and […]
Dark Matters has video of director James Wong discussing how Charlie Chaplin’s biography influenced The X-Files’ episode, “Home”–and a lot more.
The Gutter’s own Carol interviews director and screenwriter Lucile Hadžihalilović at the Vanguard Program Blog of the Toronto International Film Festival. Hadžihalilović is the director of Innocence (2004) and Evolution (2015), as well as the screenwriter of Gaspar Noé’s Enter The Void (2009).
The New Yorker has a profile of author Gene Wolfe. “His narrators may be prophets, or liars, or merely crazy, but somewhere in their stories they help to reveal what Wolfe most wants his readers to know: that compassion can withstand the most brutal of futures and exist […]
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