Brian K. Vaughan, comics author of one of my favorite series Y: The Last Man, is interviewed on NPR's Talk of the Nation for his new project The Pride of Baghdad.
The Shortlist for the Man-Booker Prize is up. Have many have I read? None.
File this one under the category of "Huh?" Talks of a film version of Saragmago's novel Blindness.
Some threads of homophobia at Marvel Comics are picked up on in a recent review on Super Underwear Perverts. The most telling paragraph:
The answer is spelled-out very clearly on the last page of the story, as the Crusader, having skipped his best-friend Curtis' funeral, is shown basking in the attention of two 'lovely', ring-conjured, extremely subservient Skrull ladies, who are climbing all over him and feeding him by hand. You see boys-and-girls, the skrull is a dedicated heterosexual. As are all the other superheroes and supervillans of this tale, and so they get to survive to fight again, no matter how stumbling, bumbling, sexist, selfish, insane, evil, murderous or downright psychotic they might be.
New Litmag Temenos looks promising, and they are searching for new work!
Because Brad Meltzer doesn't have enough money, his new book is now advertised on a Nascar.
Jeff at And I Am Not Lying for Real writes on the growing phenomenon of scarification. Warning for those apt to get quesy: some of the images are graphic, bloody and disturbing.
Google joins the ALA with a new page on banned book week (starting on the 23rd this month). It's a terrifying reminder seeing all these titles listed together and why people fear them.
The Sobol Award offers $100k for the best new unpublished, unagented novel. Worth a shot if you have a book taking up space in the sock drawer.
The Nation writes an excellent article on how librarians are defending various citizen rights tied to information. Just one of the reasons I'm moving into the field.
3 comments:
Wow great information, thanks. And I really dug the banned books page on Google. It seems crazy that those books were banned.
Thank you for these links: the scarification skin shavings were the grossest part. I forwarded the librarian link to a couple of librarian friends and the Sobol award thing to a friend in publishing.
Cool. I'm glad they were of interest and that all my blog reading is serving some sort of purpose.
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