William Gibson needs little introduction. It’s been thirty years since his first novel “Neuromancer” was published and while it’s long been a cliché to say that the book was more than just a significant science fiction novel, but a cultural touchstone. Since then Gibson has published eight more novels and a collection of essays. His new novel is “The Peripheral.” The novel takes place in...
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Amanda Palmer is well know for her work as a musician, but she’s also known for her 2013 TED talk, which garnered a lot of attention about using the internet to find and nurture an audience. It’s possible to know all this, like her work, and still be unprepared for her book "The Art of Asking." The book builds on the ideas she introduced...
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Cory Doctorow is a busy man. He’s known for a great series of science fiction and fantasy novels including “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom,” “Little Brother” and “For The Win.” He’s a blogger and journalist, a co-editor of Boing Boing, and a activist for changing copyright laws.
This fall he has two new books out. One is the graphic novel “In Real Life”...
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Patricia Lockwood made a splash online when her poem “Rape Joke” went viral in 2013 after it published on The Awl. It was included in Best American Poetry 2014 and was awarded a Pushcart Prize. Lockwood’s new book is "Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals." It’s her second book after 2012’s Balloon Pop Outlaw Black, though you likely know her from twitter.
Her poems are different...
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Alena Smith is a playwright who studied at the Yale School of Drama. She’s written many plays including “The Piven Monologues,” “Plucker,” and “The Bad Guys,” which was turned into a recent feature film, radio plays (“The Horse Counselor,” “My Virtual Owl”) and various short films (“Writing Date,” “Miss America”). She’s currently a staff writer on the HBO show “The Newsroom.”
Her first book, which
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Mimi Pond has been a successful cartoonist and writer since the early nineteen-eighties. Her cartoons appeared everywhere from Seventeen and The Los Angeles Times to National Lampoon and the Village Voice. She’s the author of five humor books including "The Valley Girls Guide to Life," "Shoes Never Lie" and "Splitting Hairs." She describes her writing for television as “a sidebar,” but it’s a sidebar that
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George Romero needs little introduction. He’s not just a legendary independent filmmaker who’s been writing, producing and directing films for more than four decades–in addition to editing and acting. He remains perhaps for his debut feature film, “Night of the Living Dead,” which in recent years has been acknowledged as not just an iconic horror film, but an important film with social and political significance
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If you know the X-Men, it’s because of Chris Claremont. The writer spent seventeen years working on “The Uncanny X-Men” at Marvel and his stories including “Days of Future Past,” “God Loves, Man Kills,” “The Dark Phoenix Saga” and many others have been mined by the X-Men cartoon shows and films. Last year’s “The Wolverine” was loosely based on the Wolverine miniseries that Claremont wrote
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Richard Kern has been a leading photographer for decades and this year, with new books, “Shot by Kern” from Taschen and his new book “Contact High” from Picturebox, he's demonstrated that he’s not slowing down. If you don’t know him from his photography, you might know him from his many films and music videos he shot for Sonic Youth, Marilyn Manson and many many others,...
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