Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Horizon Forbidden West nominated for a Nebula Award March 9, 2023 · 12:18 pm I’m thrilled to share that Horizon Forbidden West, the game I worked on as a writer, has been nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Game Writing by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA). I collaborated with a talented team…
Early on in Megan Boyle’s experiment in live-blogging her life, she decides to take a bath. She’s trying to get it all down, but there are some difficulties: 12:22AM: bathwater is running. i’m just going ot do this until forever. ate half of some kind of pill, 1 mg Xanax ithink. ate other one […]…
GMAIL’S “SMART REPLY” FEATURE OFFERS three options in a choose-your-own-adventure game at the bottom of received emails: “Got it.” “Got it, thanks!” and “Looks good!” are common choices. Sometimes the suggested responses are lightly ridiculous. An “I love you” email can prompt “It works!”—perhaps an overcorrection from an early bug when the algorithm was saying “I love…
Look, sometimes you wake up in the morning and think, “What can I do today that would make J.R.R. Tolkien proud of me?” And your brain, rested and wise, supplies the only true answer: You will rank hobbits by hotness for Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday. Disclaimer: This is a ranking of hobbits by hotness, not…
She threw a welcome party for herself at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, a beautiful old building with black and white marble, Alice-in-Wonderland floors. The guests, more than 400 of L.A.’s literati: authors, editors, publishers, book reviewers, literary agents, the local independent presses. Anna March whisked in and out, a flash of pink…
Pascal Parrot / Sygma / Sygma / Getty To mourn Philip Roth is also to mourn a particular kind of literary celebrity. If you Google the phrase literary lion, here is one of the first definitions that will be returned to you for the effort: “Noun: a noted author who has reached celebrity status.” And,…
Artist Paul Louise-Julie counts among his inspirations the words of Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien, the images of Star Wars and the whispers of a Senegalese elder who opened his eyes to the oral history of West Africa. Six years ago, he challenged himself to combine these influences with his skill as an…
The first story in Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘Her Body and Other Parties’ brings up big questions about who we believe and why Photo: Luke Braswell When I teach Carmen Maria Machado’s story “The Husband Stitch,” the first in her collection Her Body and Other Parties, to my fiction workshops, it’s unlike teaching any other story. For one thing, the men…
Harry Potter and Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance are two touchstones for “Tara Gilesbie,” the invented author of the fanfiction “My Immortal.” Warner Bros.; Kevin Winter/Getty Images The INSIDER Summary: The authorship of a so-bad-it’s-good “Harry Potter” fanfiction called “My Immortal” has been an internet mystery for a decade. The author, Rose Christo, is…
Just a little data breach affecting 143 million U.S. consumersweerapatkiatdumrong/Thinkstock On July 29 the credit reporting agency Equifax discovered that someone had accessed enormous amounts of the information that it held. This Thursday—more than a month later—Equifax released a statement announcing the breach and the company’s planned response. As is so often the case…