Here's something of interest: Don Murphy, producer of the films From Hell and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, writing about Alan Moore, and his comments about the film of V for Vendetta, "He [Moore] thinks that the VENDETTA movie changed his work and this upsets him. Did...
Last night, friends told me that they grew up with the drummer from Kiss Chasey. It's one of those things, really, isn't it? You grow up with someone who later becomes famous, or at least gains a public image, maybe after they've set that classroom...
Yes, like the rest of the world, I find daylight savings stupid (is it ending or starting? I can never remember). Seems to me if we can hold it back a week for the Commonwealth Games, we could do away with it, and I could...
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I think I'm going to start a band called Hemingway's Rifle and pitch a short story collection called That Was Hemingway's Suicide, Not Mine. Oh, wait, look at the day. Back to writing report cards for me, then....
Years ago, when I read Alan Moore and David Lloyd's V for Vendetta, I didn't like it. I came to it after reading a lot of Moore's later work, and it struck me simply as bland and, for the large part, cold. A lot of...
There are a lot of Year's Best Books, in case you haven't noticed. What I'm curious about is how many do you buy? I've bought the Datlow, Link and Grant Year's Best (formerly the Datlow and Windling) since I got into writing, and I buy it...
The author (VS Naipaul) slates Dickens for his "repetitiveness" and cites the experience of reading Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey as a revelatory one. "I thought halfway through the book, 'Here am I, a grown man reading about this terrible vapid woman and her so-called love...
Why is it that when the winner of the ABC Fiction Award for Emerging Writers is described as a sinister clown novel where the protagonist, Jamie, "is press-ganged into working for the Pilo circus as a clown with supernatural powers" where "he has to face...