(It’s only a model…) When the Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, reached from the shining bosom of the water with the legendary sword Excalibur in her grasp, I said to myself, “Arthur, one of these days, this is going to come back to…
So this isn’t “next week” as promised. Sorry. As it is wont to do, real life interfered. But you know what? That’s probably for the best. Because last week, I’d watched only the first season of Dexter, the one based on the book. This week, I’m already halfway through the…
This just in: video and printed words are different media! Which means that what is purportedly the “same” story tends to change in scope and sometimes plot when transferred from one to the other. Why am I thinking about this now? Because I’m a huge fan of Jeff Lindsay’s Darkly…
Maybe you, too, read the short story “The Lady or the Tiger”, by Frank Stockton, in middle or high school. If you didn’t, read it now, because I’m going to spoil it in the next paragraph.
While discussing Lewis Wolpert’s Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (2006) with my suitemate last week, she made an interesting point. As I complained about the oversimplification of various philosophical and logical points, she said, reasonably, “Well, these books aren’t written for us.” What she meant was that popular science books…
I liked the movie Reservoir Dogs. This doesn’t seem important, but it will be. So for those of you who, like me, have too much to do all day and not enough willpower to do it, websites like FML can be an excellent tool of procrastination.
Hooray! Internet again! The Highlights Whole Novel Workshop was an amazing experience, and much thanks goes out to the instructors and the conferees, who’ve put me back on track with my MS Bad Light (sample chapters still under revision, but the pitch is up on my “Books” page). And New…
Since I’m going to be out of the country and possibly without Internet for a couple weeks, I decided to post early. Here’s the follow-up to last week. I hope to get something posted next week sometime, but, if not, see you Sunday, June 28! For a lot of people,…
The first thing you learn when you’re a drama major is that people consider your field the lowest branch of academia. “Even” a drama student would know this; or seriously? Where do you plan to work with that degree – McDonald’s? But as any drama student who cares can tell…