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This Is Not Really About Twilight
I read with interest this article in Sunday’s Washington Post, in which various academics lament the fact that today’s undergrads don’t seem to have much of a stake in the previous generation’s ideas about literary merit. I would go a step further and note that in every creative writing class I have ever taught, something…
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Can’t Stop Writing Superhero Novels
Because they are fun, that’s why. The latest one, just finished today, is Iron Man: Virus. I had a good time working with Tony in the Ultimates book I wrote a couple of years back, so it was good to get reacquainted with him (although his non-Ultimate self is markedly different in some ways). Plus…
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Portrait of Shakespeare Authenticated? Sort of?
According to the newest Time magazine, no less an authority than Stanley Wells thinks that the Cobbe portrait is the real deal. The discovery (if that’s what it is) also adds a lot of possible backstory to the steamy bits in sonnets 18-20… I’m not sure whether I want this to be true or not.…
Crooked House Fictions 