John Kessel’s Creating The Innocent Killer: Ender’s Game, Intention and Morality
Posted by Simon in books on 13. May, 2010 | 0 Comments
The first time I read Orson Scott Card’s seminal sci-fi novel Ender’s Game, it was an assignment for my first year media studies course. At the time, I found it to be one of the most entertaining science fiction stories I’d ever read, fully buying into the Ender-as-sympathetic-protagonist paradigm that Card so carefully weaves. Still, [...]
Bret Easton Ellis and some girls he doesn’t know
Posted by Jef in books on 11. May, 2010 | 1 Comment
Vice has a long-ass interview up with author Bret Easton Ellis about his upcoming “Less Than Zero” sequel titled “Imperial Bedrooms”, and there’s some good stuff in it. Aside from the expected writerly talk about his process (says Ellis: “I don’t understand how writers complain about writing. Aren’t they pretentious?”), Ellis goes in on the [...]
Mom fights ‘Gossip Girl’ books by being greedy
Posted by Jef in books on 07. May, 2010 | 1 Comment
HAHA at this sentence: “Longwood parent Tina Harden…” Anyway, concerned-Floridian Harden was so upset with the “Gossip Girl” books her 13-year-old daughter checked out from the library that she decided to hold on to them for two years and not give them back. She now owes the library $85 dollars, but that’s OK, she’s saved [...]
