31 October 2014

The Cloture Wars

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Earlier this week Farah Stockman wrote in the Boston Globe about presidential nominations in recent years: To see how contentious nominati...
30 October 2014

Two Warrior Women

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Tonight I went to two author events, one after another, both about female fighters. One was Jill Lepore’s talk at the Radcliffe Institut...
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29 October 2014

“Wonderlands” Conference and Call for Papers

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The University of Chichester’s Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy is hosting a symposium on “Wonderlands: Reading/ Writi...
28 October 2014

Monkeying Around with Influences

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This is Harry Bliss’s daily newspaper cartoon from 16 Oct 2014. I like the way he’s combined the costuming from the MGM movie with the ...
27 October 2014

When Harry Hardin Met Anna

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Anna Todd’s After is taking the English-language publishing industry’s exploration of fanfiction to the edge of legality. Originally pu...
26 October 2014

What Is Dick Grayson’s Core?

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Kyle Higgins appears to be wrapping up his current work on the Dick Grayson character. The latest stories in  Batman Beyond 2.0 , includin...
23 October 2014

No Justifiable Homicides for Superheroes

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Recapping network television episodes seems to be big business for entertainment websites these days. I did it myself for Den of Geek and ...
22 October 2014

Supporting the Finer Arts

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Not being or ever having been a coffee fan, I much enjoyed novelist Ethan Hauser’s New York Times essay, “I Am Not a Coffee Drinker” last ...
20 October 2014

Got My Copies Today

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Colonial Comics editorial team drawn by Noel Tuazon .
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19 October 2014

Loeb’s Untraveled Road

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This month John Siuntres’s Word Balloon podcast reran excerpts from some past years’ interviews with Batman story creators. Starting abou...