A few months ago, I heard about a project after my own Smiths-hearting heart. It is an anthology of comics stories based on Smiths songs, called Unite and Take Over. Funded by Kickstarter, it has proven to be something people want — so much so that a second volume is being planned. I was [...]
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All Things Considered, which, along with Morning Edition, makes up the entirety of my non-satiric news consumption, is having a short story contest. Stories for the “Three-Minute Fiction” contest have to be no more than 600 words and based on the photograph at the link. I’m intending to write something for it, but, unfortunately, [...] Check out Tobias Wolff rocking out to John Darnielle singing his much-beloved Mountain Goats song “Woke Up New.” Via GalleyCat, where there’s a brief disussion of song lyrics as literature. “What have song writers learned from regular writers?” it asks, but when it comes to song writers like John Darnielle, I think there [...] |
My Opium Den
After some thinking, I realized why I didn't finish this book (even as I racked up late fees from the library): I found the subject matter, the history of the region of England called Sunderland, interesting, but there was nothing about the...
Lovely art by Camilla D'Errico (who should be listed as a co-author) provide mood and texture for this story of a troubled young girl whose fantasy life becomes a bit too real when she visits a website called Make5wishes.com. The authors ar...
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