Media references to fanfic, the week ending 8/20/11
Pratiksha Thanki wrote a lengthy article on Harry Potter fanfic for The Tribune (Chandigarh, India).
In the New York Times (and other papers), Nate Chinen wrote Produced by T Bone Burnett, who shaped the sound and mood of Bridges' Oscar-winning role of Bad Blake in "Crazy Heart," [Jeff Bridges' new album] can look from the outside like a cross between a vanity project, a brand extension and fan fiction.
On Salon, Drew Grant pointed to a list of Star Trek slash Eric Diaz put together for Ranker.com.
In The Observer, in an article about the inadvisability of JK Rowling sating fans' desire for more Harry Potter, David Mitchell wrote "fan fiction" is an excellent way for [fans] to slake their thirst for content without destroying the mystery for everyone else.
In an article about local author Keary Taylor for Islands' Sounder, Colleen Armstrong wrote Keary says she has always dabbled in writing - she penned a 200-page Harry Potter fan fiction in middle school - but she didn’t begin seriously pursuing the craft until moving to Orcas from Utah in 2008.
Juli Weiner channeled Tim Pawlenty fretting about his website's fate for Vanity Fair.
Wired's Tim Carmody wrote cell phone fanfic.
In a review of Conan the Barbarian for Sydney Morning Herald and other Australian papers, Giles Hardie wrote that the movie is nothing more than high budget 3D fan fiction. At one point its even erotic fan fiction.
Finally, in Havana Times, Dmitri Prieto Samsonov profiled activist and blogger Yasmin Silvia Portales Machado, who told the interviewer I started up Palabras robadas (“Stolen words”) in September 2005. It’s dedicated to “fanfiction.” It’s basically homosexual erotic literature, but there’s something political in it because in those stories I often begin to speculate about what is a relationship between a couple, what is family and what is power or obsessions, all these being topics of feminist thinking, as you can imagine.
In the New York Times (and other papers), Nate Chinen wrote Produced by T Bone Burnett, who shaped the sound and mood of Bridges' Oscar-winning role of Bad Blake in "Crazy Heart," [Jeff Bridges' new album] can look from the outside like a cross between a vanity project, a brand extension and fan fiction.
On Salon, Drew Grant pointed to a list of Star Trek slash Eric Diaz put together for Ranker.com.
In The Observer, in an article about the inadvisability of JK Rowling sating fans' desire for more Harry Potter, David Mitchell wrote "fan fiction" is an excellent way for [fans] to slake their thirst for content without destroying the mystery for everyone else.
In an article about local author Keary Taylor for Islands' Sounder, Colleen Armstrong wrote Keary says she has always dabbled in writing - she penned a 200-page Harry Potter fan fiction in middle school - but she didn’t begin seriously pursuing the craft until moving to Orcas from Utah in 2008.
Juli Weiner channeled Tim Pawlenty fretting about his website's fate for Vanity Fair.
Wired's Tim Carmody wrote cell phone fanfic.
In a review of Conan the Barbarian for Sydney Morning Herald and other Australian papers, Giles Hardie wrote that the movie is nothing more than high budget 3D fan fiction. At one point its even erotic fan fiction.
Finally, in Havana Times, Dmitri Prieto Samsonov profiled activist and blogger Yasmin Silvia Portales Machado, who told the interviewer I started up Palabras robadas (“Stolen words”) in September 2005. It’s dedicated to “fanfiction.” It’s basically homosexual erotic literature, but there’s something political in it because in those stories I often begin to speculate about what is a relationship between a couple, what is family and what is power or obsessions, all these being topics of feminist thinking, as you can imagine.