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Supernatural and Ultimates Books Are Out
It’s tie-in heaven around here. Not only has The Supernatural Book of Monsters, Demons, Spirits, and Ghouls come out today, but The Ultimates: Against All Enemies appeared about a week ago. These are my ninth and tenth books, which seems bizarre to me considering how recently I was complaining about how hard it was to…
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Supernatural Interviews
Getting married Saturday and preparations proceed apace! Send money, gifts, good will! But, a few moments were stolen for cool and illuminating interviews with Supernatural special effects coordinator Randy Shymkiw and executive producer Kim Manners. Look for them in the debut issue of the Supernatural magazine, which will appear…sometime.
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PKD in the NYer
Adam Gopnik has a terrific piece on Philip K. Dick in the current New Yorker. I could quibble until the world falls into gubbish, but Gopnik is one of the few literati I’ve seen write about Dick and really get him in the way that I, in my solipsistically infinite wisdom, would wish Dick to…
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RIP Weekly World News
This makes me sad, in the same way that I get sad because America’s proud tradition of hucksterism is increasingly subsumed within politics and televangelism. (Where have you gone, PT Barnum? Getting ripped off by the spinny-dart-machine guy at Coney Island just isn’t the same.) The last WWN I bought offered the untold story of…
Crooked House Fictions 