In fall mom would open the front door and the back so randy tarantulas could migrate through. Green linoleum in the kitchen and once, a toddler, you practiced shaving with our dad’s razor. I remember them holding you down, lots of red-black blood on the green floor. You remember me walking on a wall in… Continue reading Friday Finds
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Sunday Circle – what I’m writing this week
For background on the Sunday Circle, see this post. What am I working on this week? I've been making pretty good headway on Flight, but have also been getting distracted by a children's fantasy/horror graphic novel that I've been working on for a little while which I have tentatively named Have You Heard About the Witch at… Continue reading Sunday Circle – what I’m writing this week
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“I thought romance is a complicated subject, and young girls are pretty smart, probably smarter than boys. So I tried to give them something worthy of their attention,” another writer, Walter Geier, told Hajdu. An editor once told him not to worry overmuch about the craft of his stories, as he was writing for “the… Continue reading Friday Finds
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The Cat also revises tropes related to the physicality of female superheroes. As Trina Robbins observes, almost all of Marvel’s female superheroes from the 1960s have “hands off” powers, exemplified by the force fields of the Invisible Girl (later the Invisible Woman) and the telekinesis of Marvel Girl (later Phoenix) (The Great Women Super Heroes, 113).… Continue reading Friday Finds
2017 in Books: June
Oh, man, a little late this month, but hey! Here are the books I read in June. People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry It's not exactly a secret that I am enjoying a bit of a love affair with true crime (although that might be the wrong phrasing). Richard Lloyd Parry's detailed account of… Continue reading 2017 in Books: June
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Oh, man, I was excited already for Black Panther, but the trailer released at the very end of last weekend has exceeded all of my expectations. It looks, to put it bluntly, totally, totally awesome. These Wonder Woman posters are everything / 50 future literary classics / this collection of photographs from photographer Georges Dambier are wonderful /… Continue reading Friday Finds
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Her hands were tight on the steering wheel as she spoke. I realized later that it wasn’t the topic of abortion itself that made her so uneasy—she was a nurse and a Roe-era feminist who usually responded straightforwardly to even the most embarrassing health questions. Rather, her anguish arose from sharing a truth that she’d… Continue reading Friday Finds
2016 in Books: October
I actually got a bit of reading done in October which was pretty awesome. From finishing a series - Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach, to starting a new one - Tom Taylor's The Deep, to a true crime book and a short story collection too. It was a nice, diverse month of reading. Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer What can I… Continue reading 2016 in Books: October
Magical Places
One of the projects I don't talk a whole lot about on this blog is a children's graphic novel that I've been working on for quite a while. I love comics generally (in case you couldn't tell), and have a particular love for stand alone stories that seek to explore complex themes with younger characters… Continue reading Magical Places
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To achieve today’s desirable veneer of innocence, the industry recommends a practice of constant, self-diagnostic work. This is not new, of course. “We are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism,” Donna Haraway wrote in “A Cyborg Manifesto,” her classic feminist essay, first published three decades ago. Haraway imagined technology as a… Continue reading Friday Finds
Sophie Overett 