Interview with #Burgerpunk and Paintwork Author Tim Maughan
Here’s a nice long interview with, Tim Maughan, author of short stories like “Paintwork,” “#Burgerpunk” and the British Science Fiction Award nominated “Limited Edition“: The problem, perhaps, with...
View ArticleThe Problem with “Strong Female Characters”
Sophia McDougall writes: Sherlock Holmes gets to be brilliant, solitary, abrasive, Bohemian, whimsical, brave, sad, manipulative, neurotic, vain, untidy, fastidious, artistic, courteous, rude, a...
View ArticleChased by Google X
Fiction (?) from Adam Rothstein: They explained the manifesto. Any device that was known to be approaching release, they would fabricate and wield in public. Their devices were seen in blurry street...
View ArticleThe Silent History: The strange novel that makes you travel to read it
The Week reports, back in October 2012: An ambitious new e-book pushes the boundaries of interactive fiction by requiring readers to visit specific locations to unlock new parts of its story If you...
View ArticleThe Cultural Evolution of Little Red Riding Hood
From Live Science: Tehrani discovered that “Little Red Riding Hood” seems to have descended from the more ancient story “The Wolf and the Kids” — but so did African versions that independently evolved...
View ArticleRemember Who the Enemy Is
Capitalist Realism author Mark “K-Punk” Fisher on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: There’s something so uncannily timely about The Hunger Games: Catching Fire that it’s almost disturbing. In the UK...
View ArticleThe Daggers of Jorge Luis Borges
Ostensibly a review of Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature, this essay is a great overview of how Jorge Borges’ politics affected his work: Throughout his life, Jorge Luis Borges was...
View ArticleChina Miéville Lays the Smack Down on Psychogeography
From a 2011 BLDGBLOG interview with China Miéville: . Novelists have an endless drive to aestheticize and to complicate. I know there’s a very strong tradition—a tradition in which I write,...
View ArticleInterview with critic and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman about the terrors of...
Mark Dery talks with Mikita Brottman, author of The Solitary Vice: Against Reading: I live in an old hotel, and I’ve recently been researching old newspaper items about the suicides that happened here,...
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