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Neil Gaiman: Made rebloggable by request. On criticism... →
What’s your opinion on authors singling out negative reviews (explaining in comments why the review is wrong, defending their book, etc) of their work on sites like Goodreads?I think authors are allowed to point out errors of fact in a negative review, if…
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“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country -
A photo of Stan Lee in the Marvel offices in 1968. Stan used this as a photo for autographs back in the day.
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Just saw this in Previews online!! I received my comp copies just this week and got to read through the whole book. Really really pleased with how this project turned out. The book will be available through comic shops but also through the publisher’s website: The Official Site of Bill the Boy Wonder
Publisher: CHARLESBRIDGE PUBLISHING(W) Marc Tyler Nobleman (A/CA) Ty TempletonEvery Batman story is marked with the words “Batman created by Bob Kane.” But that isn’t the whole truth. A struggling writer named Bill Finger was involved from the beginning. Bill helped invent Batman, from concept to costume to character. He dreamed up Batman’s haunting origins and his colorful nemeses. Despite his brilliance, Bill worked in obscurity. It was only after his death that fans went to bat for Bill, calling for acknowledgment that he was the co-creator of Batman. Based on original research, Bill the Boy Wonder is the first-ever book about the unsung man behind the Dark Knight. -
Neil Gaiman: The Faces of Fantasy Essay →
THESE ARE NOT OUR FACES.
This is not what we look like.
You think Gene Wolfe looks like his photograph in this book? Or Jane Yolen? Or Peter Straub? Or Diana Wynne Jones? Not so. They are wearing play-faces to fool you. But the play-faces come off when the writing…(Source: hereinmyhead.com)
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Happy Birthday, David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008)
““Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties — all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name’s Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion — these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.”
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Tattoo by Jimmy Lazer at Up In Flames Tattoo in Fall River, MA (via Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? : TattooSnob.com)
