Before I start, let me be clear about one thing: this is not a list of the best SF movies of all time—although if I were to compile my top picks, some of the titles below would definitely be on that list as well. This is a list of mind-blowing [...]
Gwyneth Paltrow’s new cookbook, It’s All Good, is based around her elimination diet, which requires her to eliminate… well, almost everything: soy, coffee, alcohol, dairy, eggs, sugar, shellfish, deepwater fish, potatoes, tomatoes, bell peppers, eggplant (WHY?!), corn, wheat, meat, and processed food. So how does she write a cookbook with [...]
Remember the scene where the Beast tells Belle to close her eyes, leads her into a dark, dusty room, and then rips open the drapes, revealing the most incredible library any of us have every seen? Books cover the walls from floor to ceiling, or maybe sky, wrapping around columns [...]
TheSeaMan 31/Male/Straight/Single Key West, Florida My self-summary I am a man of war.
Nina Katchadourian—an artist you may have previously seen in a Flemish airline toilet portrait—started arranging book spines as a graduate student in 1990. Not her own, or those in a public library, but the collection of her classmate’s parents. They lived in a foggy California beach town called Half Moon [...]
When you have writer’s block, it can be hard to describe the way you feel. There are no words—literally! But if you’re going to finally finish that novel, you need to force yourself to persevere through the emptiness. How do you counteract that weird, blank BLAH feeling you get when [...]
I’m a genre fiction book reviewer, so it’s sometimes my job to read really creepy stuff. I’m also the father of two young girls—six and three—both of whom are undeniably fascinated by spooky things. Their new favorite animated television show on Netflix is Ruby Gloom, a decidedly dark series that [...]
Editor’s note: Joel is reading his way through the finalists for the 2012 Nebula Award for best sci-fi/fantasy novel. Read his introduction here. The mainstream success of Game of Thrones aside, it’s easy to see why many readers might find reading fantasy embarrassing and/or intimidating: not only do the books [...]
Unless we decide to make a change as adults, most of us don’t have a say in what our names are. We rely on the thoughtfulness and judgment of our parents, and hopefully don’t wind up as the living embodiment of forced creativity (“Starburst Pear Walnut Salad”) or the first [...]
