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RIP Tom Disch and Tiger Stadium
Of all the obituaries coming out in the wake of Tom Disch’s suicide, the New York Times version seems the most interesting, with a laudatory and evenhanded assessment of Disch’s achievements in all of the various genres he tackled. It’s not often you see an obit with quotes from David Pringle and Dana Gioia. When…
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Headed for Comic-Con
Just nailing down the arrangements to go to San Diego for the first time since 2004, when I was out there on a little tour ahead of the release of One King, One Soldier. I’ll be on the following panel: July 24th, 2008 5 – 6PM The Making of the Vertigo Encyclopedia (Karen Berger, Alastair…
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Bloomsday, RIP Stan Winston
In honor of Bloomsday, I was all set to post a chipper set of links to stuff like audio of James Joyce reading, and then I heard that Stan Winston, makeup/creature/animatronic effects artist without peer, has died. (Notes from AICN, Slashfilm, and Bloody Disgusting). Not too many people did more to shape the look of…
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Continuing Memoir Backlash, Plus Acme!
Entertainment Weekly has a genuinely stupefying rundown of the metastasizing memoir industry over the past ten years or so. Why don’t people just exorcise their personal demons and indulge their narcissism through autobiographical fiction, the way they used to? And if you are a fan of Warner Brothers cartoons, which if you aren’t you should…
Crooked House Fictions 