Media References to Fanfic, the week ending 4/25/15
On Business Insider, Madeline Stone shared a casting call for a 'Mark Zuckerberg fan fiction'.
Forbes contributor David F. Carr authored Skrawl Wants To Go Hollywood With Collaborative Fan Fiction.
From The Stranger: Redacted Erotic Fan Fiction-Seattle City Politics Edition.
Claire Nally made a game attempt at explaining fanfic for readers of The Conversation.
In “Five Things I Learned At The World's Top Star Wars Convention” for Forbes, Zack O’Malley Greenburg wrote A year ago, Disney decreed that much of the so-called Star Wars expanded universe was, in essence, fan fiction. Scores of novels and other literature related to the franchise became “Star Wars Legends,” paving the way for Disney to take a new direction with plotlines without technically contradicting existing texts.
For Kansas City Star, Liz Cook wrote Catherine Browder, an associate faculty member in creative writing at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, is undeniably a fan of Anton Chekhov. Her latest book, “Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov,” begins where Chekhov’s plays end, thrusting the Russian writer’s most famous characters into startling new contexts and trials. Call it homage. Call it fan fiction. Whatever you call it, it’s worth a read.
In “Gilbert Blythe lives on through Anne of Green Gables internet fandoms” for CBC, Lauren O'Neil shared just a few of the ways that fans have been paid tribute to Anne Shirley's "perfect boyfriend" on Tumblr, on their own blogs and through romantic fan fiction over the years.
For New York Post, Elisabeth Vincentelli wrote The CW’s lo-fi series “The 100” has corralled a rabid following over just two seasons and 29 episodes - evidenced by the rapidly escalating amount of fan fiction.
For New Republic, Damian Lanigan wrote that “Downton Abbey” has earned more Emmy nominations than any foreign show in history and regularly beats network opposition in its time slot; PBS’s other straight shot of Anglo period drama, “Call the Midwife,” regularly gets 3.6 million viewers and is called “sweet,” “heartwarming,” and “gorgeously hopeful” by critics; “Sherlock” and the BBC’s “Doctor Who” combine critical respect, solid numbers, and fandoms of Kremlinological complexity, consisting of Tumblrs, fan fiction, and, in the case of “Who,” conventions where adults dressed as robots attend talks titled, “Everything I Know About History I Learned From ‘Doctor Who.’”
Tufts Daily’s Anjali Nair wrote that a new novel imagines a reincarnation of [Kurt] Cobain in the modern day. The book, written by University of Toronto Professor Lynn Crosbie, is a fantastical tale about teenage heroin addict Evelyn Gray, who ends up in a hospital. There, Gray starts a relationship with a fellow patient, Celine Black, who just so happens to be Kurt Cobain reincarnate. And not in a metaphorical sense - in the book, Black really is Cobain’s ghost. Before writing off the novel as yet another middle-aged women’s unsettling fanfiction - which it may well be - it’s important to note that Crosbie is well-regarded for her prose. With multiple poetry collections and novels published, as well as acclaimed journalistic works, she may have the writing chops to execute this strange plot line. And, for National Post, Emma Healey wrote In a café in Toronto’s Parkdale, Lynn Crosbie tells me that her latest book was originally supposed to be a young adult novel, “but,” she says, “I started to write it and within three pages she was f-king and doing heroin and I thought no, no.” So, Where Did You Sleep Last Night is instead indebted to other genres, especially fanfiction and prose poetry; its language is dreamy and shifts like quicksand, and the plot can be difficult to grasp; early moments - like the one where an English teacher sits on a student’s lap to weep as he quotes Shakespeare - are a pretty clear tip-off that the ratio of magic to realism in the novel is a little skewed. It’s a novel, certainly - but to call it just that seems inadequate. You read about it here first, folks!
Elizabeth Minkel noted that there are more than 18,000 fandoms on Archive of Our Own, a popular fan fiction-hosting site in a piece about Ed Miliband’s developing fandom for New Statesman.
Chicago Tribune’s Tracy Swartz wrote that several Full House obsessive non-fans, Katie Johnston-Smith and Meghan Lloyd, plan to create a Tumblr account to post Lloyd's "Full House" fan fiction about what the characters are up to now (including sex scenes that they now plan to tone down) and stress their obsession with the show, Johnston-Smith said.
For Bloomberg View, Ana Marie Cox wrote that podcast “Undisclosed" is part fan-fiction, part Reddit and all amateur.
In a piece for The Hollywood Reporter on the status of fan film Power/Rangers, Chris Gardner quoted star James Van Der Beek: "Now it’s back up, and fan film, fan fiction is alive and well on the Internet."
In a recap discussion for New York Observer, Drew Grant wrote that this season [of Game of Thrones] feels like it’s just some Internet dweeb’s slash fic.
From a capsule review of Brickleberry in The Guardian: Season two of the crass animated comedy - imagine Dapper Laughs alone in his darkened room hammering out atrocious Family Guy fanfic - opens with the discovery of a lake within America’s worst national park that has healing properties.
Accroding to Los Angeles Times’s Jacket Copy, comedian Patton Oswalt told a recent audience that when he had a gig as high school sports reporter, "A lot of times, I wouldn't even go to the games […] I would just get the scores and make up what happened -- it was like I was writing fan fiction about games that had happened. I could have said, 'His run was stopped by a griffin who pulled off his head with a talon,' and readers would say, 'Oh the Spartans lost again.'"
For The New York Times, Eric Kaplan noted that On social media sites like Twitter, video distribution sites like YouTube and fan fiction sites like fanfiction.net, we create our own kind of characters and new possibilities for who we want to be and share them with like-minded people.
Finally, BBC reported that playwright and critic Bonnie Greer is planning a "Jane Eyre fan fiction" workshop in London.
Forbes contributor David F. Carr authored Skrawl Wants To Go Hollywood With Collaborative Fan Fiction.
From The Stranger: Redacted Erotic Fan Fiction-Seattle City Politics Edition.
Claire Nally made a game attempt at explaining fanfic for readers of The Conversation.
In “Five Things I Learned At The World's Top Star Wars Convention” for Forbes, Zack O’Malley Greenburg wrote A year ago, Disney decreed that much of the so-called Star Wars expanded universe was, in essence, fan fiction. Scores of novels and other literature related to the franchise became “Star Wars Legends,” paving the way for Disney to take a new direction with plotlines without technically contradicting existing texts.
For Kansas City Star, Liz Cook wrote Catherine Browder, an associate faculty member in creative writing at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, is undeniably a fan of Anton Chekhov. Her latest book, “Now We Can All Go Home: Three Novellas in Homage to Chekhov,” begins where Chekhov’s plays end, thrusting the Russian writer’s most famous characters into startling new contexts and trials. Call it homage. Call it fan fiction. Whatever you call it, it’s worth a read.
In “Gilbert Blythe lives on through Anne of Green Gables internet fandoms” for CBC, Lauren O'Neil shared just a few of the ways that fans have been paid tribute to Anne Shirley's "perfect boyfriend" on Tumblr, on their own blogs and through romantic fan fiction over the years.
For New York Post, Elisabeth Vincentelli wrote The CW’s lo-fi series “The 100” has corralled a rabid following over just two seasons and 29 episodes - evidenced by the rapidly escalating amount of fan fiction.
For New Republic, Damian Lanigan wrote that “Downton Abbey” has earned more Emmy nominations than any foreign show in history and regularly beats network opposition in its time slot; PBS’s other straight shot of Anglo period drama, “Call the Midwife,” regularly gets 3.6 million viewers and is called “sweet,” “heartwarming,” and “gorgeously hopeful” by critics; “Sherlock” and the BBC’s “Doctor Who” combine critical respect, solid numbers, and fandoms of Kremlinological complexity, consisting of Tumblrs, fan fiction, and, in the case of “Who,” conventions where adults dressed as robots attend talks titled, “Everything I Know About History I Learned From ‘Doctor Who.’”
Tufts Daily’s Anjali Nair wrote that a new novel imagines a reincarnation of [Kurt] Cobain in the modern day. The book, written by University of Toronto Professor Lynn Crosbie, is a fantastical tale about teenage heroin addict Evelyn Gray, who ends up in a hospital. There, Gray starts a relationship with a fellow patient, Celine Black, who just so happens to be Kurt Cobain reincarnate. And not in a metaphorical sense - in the book, Black really is Cobain’s ghost. Before writing off the novel as yet another middle-aged women’s unsettling fanfiction - which it may well be - it’s important to note that Crosbie is well-regarded for her prose. With multiple poetry collections and novels published, as well as acclaimed journalistic works, she may have the writing chops to execute this strange plot line. And, for National Post, Emma Healey wrote In a café in Toronto’s Parkdale, Lynn Crosbie tells me that her latest book was originally supposed to be a young adult novel, “but,” she says, “I started to write it and within three pages she was f-king and doing heroin and I thought no, no.” So, Where Did You Sleep Last Night is instead indebted to other genres, especially fanfiction and prose poetry; its language is dreamy and shifts like quicksand, and the plot can be difficult to grasp; early moments - like the one where an English teacher sits on a student’s lap to weep as he quotes Shakespeare - are a pretty clear tip-off that the ratio of magic to realism in the novel is a little skewed. It’s a novel, certainly - but to call it just that seems inadequate. You read about it here first, folks!
Elizabeth Minkel noted that there are more than 18,000 fandoms on Archive of Our Own, a popular fan fiction-hosting site in a piece about Ed Miliband’s developing fandom for New Statesman.
Chicago Tribune’s Tracy Swartz wrote that several Full House obsessive non-fans, Katie Johnston-Smith and Meghan Lloyd, plan to create a Tumblr account to post Lloyd's "Full House" fan fiction about what the characters are up to now (including sex scenes that they now plan to tone down) and stress their obsession with the show, Johnston-Smith said.
For Bloomberg View, Ana Marie Cox wrote that podcast “Undisclosed" is part fan-fiction, part Reddit and all amateur.
In a piece for The Hollywood Reporter on the status of fan film Power/Rangers, Chris Gardner quoted star James Van Der Beek: "Now it’s back up, and fan film, fan fiction is alive and well on the Internet."
In a recap discussion for New York Observer, Drew Grant wrote that this season [of Game of Thrones] feels like it’s just some Internet dweeb’s slash fic.
From a capsule review of Brickleberry in The Guardian: Season two of the crass animated comedy - imagine Dapper Laughs alone in his darkened room hammering out atrocious Family Guy fanfic - opens with the discovery of a lake within America’s worst national park that has healing properties.
Accroding to Los Angeles Times’s Jacket Copy, comedian Patton Oswalt told a recent audience that when he had a gig as high school sports reporter, "A lot of times, I wouldn't even go to the games […] I would just get the scores and make up what happened -- it was like I was writing fan fiction about games that had happened. I could have said, 'His run was stopped by a griffin who pulled off his head with a talon,' and readers would say, 'Oh the Spartans lost again.'"
For The New York Times, Eric Kaplan noted that On social media sites like Twitter, video distribution sites like YouTube and fan fiction sites like fanfiction.net, we create our own kind of characters and new possibilities for who we want to be and share them with like-minded people.
Finally, BBC reported that playwright and critic Bonnie Greer is planning a "Jane Eyre fan fiction" workshop in London.