books, mostly
I don’t enjoy writing. I used to have taped over my desk over there the Beckett quote, “Fail better.” So I have a sense of it always being, kind of, pushing the rock up the hill: “Is this any good?” and “No, it’s probably not.”
God's Favorite Writer: An interview with Mary Karr
"Legacy Characters"--heroes and villains that are "inspired" by pre-exisiting characters--have been a staple of comics ever since 1956, when Barry Allen kicked off the Silver Age by becoming the second Flash. More recently, however, there's been a trend built around creators realizing that their spandex outfits might sell a few more books if they were filled by curvier bodies.
. . . as it stands, we're giving the nod to X-23 (the former teenage prostitute clone of Wolverine), who appears to exist solely to give fans a version of everyone's favorite X-Man that they can have a crush on without all those pesky confusing feelings.
Roasting Old Chestnuts: Our Favorite Comic Book Cliches by Chris Sims
It is Dostoevsky's birthday! I know, you're thinking, what do I get a (dead) man who absolutely nothing will make happy? Well, have you tried a hair shirt? How about a cupcake bouquet?
Jessa Crispin @ Bookslut
I would pay £270,000+ for a "collection of Byron's letters in which he describes a stormy affair with a servant girl, attacks Christianity and dismisses his rival poet as William 'Turdsworth,'" as an anonymous buyer did yesterday. They sound like great reading: Byron writes happily from Portugal, noting that "the inhabitants have few vices except lice and sodomy". From Turkey, he talks of meeting Ali Pasha and describes his swim across the Dardanelles, saying: "I do this that you may be impressed with proper respect for me the performer, for I plume myself on this atchievement".
Jessa Crispin @ Bookslut
God's Favorite Writer: An interview with Mary Karr
"Legacy Characters"--heroes and villains that are "inspired" by pre-exisiting characters--have been a staple of comics ever since 1956, when Barry Allen kicked off the Silver Age by becoming the second Flash. More recently, however, there's been a trend built around creators realizing that their spandex outfits might sell a few more books if they were filled by curvier bodies.
. . . as it stands, we're giving the nod to X-23 (the former teenage prostitute clone of Wolverine), who appears to exist solely to give fans a version of everyone's favorite X-Man that they can have a crush on without all those pesky confusing feelings.
Roasting Old Chestnuts: Our Favorite Comic Book Cliches by Chris Sims
It is Dostoevsky's birthday! I know, you're thinking, what do I get a (dead) man who absolutely nothing will make happy? Well, have you tried a hair shirt? How about a cupcake bouquet?
Jessa Crispin @ Bookslut
I would pay £270,000+ for a "collection of Byron's letters in which he describes a stormy affair with a servant girl, attacks Christianity and dismisses his rival poet as William 'Turdsworth,'" as an anonymous buyer did yesterday. They sound like great reading: Byron writes happily from Portugal, noting that "the inhabitants have few vices except lice and sodomy". From Turkey, he talks of meeting Ali Pasha and describes his swim across the Dardanelles, saying: "I do this that you may be impressed with proper respect for me the performer, for I plume myself on this atchievement".
Jessa Crispin @ Bookslut