Features
Thursday, September 11 2008
The Second Coming of Steampunk: An Interview with Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
Originally a literary movement that mashed cyberpunk-style themes with speculative rewritings of Victorian culture, steampunk is now equally a subculture devoted to repurposing mass-market consumer products into gloriously obsessive idiosyncratic designs.
Thursday, November 1 2007
Michel Faber's Fantasies
"My fiction should make the reader want to grab some of these characters and shout, 'No, no, can't you see it's not LIKE that?!'"
Friday, April 6 2007
Long Zoom: Interview with Steven Johnson
"My editor said, 'Yeah, it's like Emergence if the slime molds started killing people in chapter four.' And that became my mantra as I was writing it: 'Just think Emergence with killer slime molds and you're golden.'" PopMatters talks to Ghost Map author, Steven Johnson.
Reviews
Thursday, January 17 2008
The Treatment
Four forms of love: a teacher's love for his students, a son's love for his father, a man's search for a sexual partner, and an analysand's love for his analyst.
Tuesday, December 4 2007
The Iron Whim by Darren Wershler-Henry
Darren Wershler-Henry's The Iron Whim is less a history of typewriting than a history of its image.
Wednesday, October 31 2007
Count Dracula
This is a must-own for Dracula fans, lovers of Halloween, and admirers of Victorian fiction; virtually anyone will find something to enjoy in it.
Wednesday, October 3 2007
The Man Who Melted by Jack Dann
Jack Dann has created a post-apocalyptic world in which Raymond Mantle is searching for the memory of his lost wife. The search for her turns out to be a search for the relationship between memory and desire.
Monday, September 24 2007
An Arsonists Guide to Writers Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
Clarke's book ought to make us think about the stories we tell ourselves to keep the howling demons at bay and, hopefully, to laugh honestly at them for what they really are.
