Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
It was easily one of the biggest interviews of my career. My editor couldn’t get it for me. I got it myself. I joke about it pretty frequently, although being about six feet tall with a curvier build undoubtedly has its advantages. It was late last July, I was in a tiny crop top and a destroyed…
Feminist supporters wonder: How can we help Sanders draw more female supporters? (Troy Wayrynen/AP) Sylva Stoel runs the Twitter account @QueenFeminist. Each day, the South Dakota teenager shares her thoughts on gender equality to more than 24,600 followers. Stop 👏 shaming 👏 women 👏 for 👏 our 👏 bodies 👏 & 👏 how 👏 we…
The zillions of tie-in stories for The Force Awakens revealed there was going to be a scene in the movie where Leia acknowledged that her former colleagues in the Senate were just as likely to want to have her killed as they were to ignore her. A new Star Wars novel is going to explore…
The Expanse just finished its first season—leaving us with ten episodes of a show which beat all our highest expectations and made Syfy a destination in a way that it hasn’t been since Battlestar Galactica. How? Warning: Spoilers abound. The Expanse had a doubly difficult job to do. It had to adapt a book to…
When this launched, there were dozens of confused comments from people wondering what old videogames has to do with Internet history. In my mind, this stems from mistaken perception issues of the Internet Archive as solely an institution saving webpages. But their mission and motto is much broader: Universal access to all knowledge. The Internet…
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson. (Jae C. Hong/AP) Updated with Carson response Somehow, the word “gaffe” doesn’t quite describe Ben Carson’s latest foot-in-mouth moment. His stumble on the stump in Iowa on Thursday was awkward, embarrassing, possibly painful — anything but funny. And it involved a school kid who — how to put this pleasantly?…
MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE–New Hampshire! Land of granite, and heroin, and many white people unironically enjoying Republican political events. Upon arriving in downtown Manchester last night, I stumbled directly into a debate watching party hosted by National Review, held in a vast and undecorated conference room at the main hotel. There was something satisfying about knowing…
Neuromancer was a commissioned work. I have no idea how many years it might have taken, otherwise, before I produced a novel on spec. Had you asked me at the time of commission, I would have told you 10, but then again, it might never have happened. Careers are odd, that way. (Careers are nothing but odd.) I was 34,…
Let’s start, this time, with a story. This is about Hillary Clinton – everything I write seems to be about her these days – but it’s about me, too. It’s about what it means, to be a feminist, or a woman on the left, and whether it matters. So before I get to her, let’s…