Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
All the debate can finally be laid to rest. We’re about to finally know what happened to Jar Jar Binks after Revenge of the Sith, and what he’s been doing since Return of the Jedi. The answers will be revealed in Star Wars Aftermath: Empire’s End, the third part of Chuck Wendig’s canon trilogy or…
Your Post Has Been Launched! Fabulous! Don’t forget to share with your friends on Twitter and Facebook. 2. Roxane Gay has pulled her forthcoming book, How to Be Heard, from Simon & Schuster in response to its reported $250,000 book deal with Milo Yiannopoulous. How to Be Heard was scheduled to be published in March…
Image via Threshold Editions. Last week, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Threshold Editions, the conservative imprint of publishing giant Simon & Schuster, advanced Milo Yiannopoulos $250,000 for his forthcoming book, Dangerous, which will focus, broadly, on the topic of “free speech.” The news was met with sharp rebuke on social media, while headlines and articles…
Born to a man who can’t possibly understand, and the woman who chose him over her magic. Born to take care of two brothers who have powers they must, at all costs, hide. Born to leadership. Born to duty. Minerva. Prefect, Head Girl, winner of Transfiguration Today’s Most Promising Newcomer award. Minerva McGonagall is born…
Slavic SFF is a fascinating corner of our beloved genre. Often times it gets unfairly overlooked, or lumped in with Western European SFF and dismissed as just another faux medieval fantasy vaguely inspired by (Western) historical events. But the reality is a completely different matter. Eastern European genre fiction doesn’t just differ substantially from that…
Members of the secret Facebook group Pantsuit Nation gathered in front of the White House to take pictures and show support on Election Day for Hillary Clinton. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times When Libby Chamberlain, the creator of the pro-Hillary Clinton Facebook group Pantsuit Nation, announced this week that she plans to publish a…
IN LATE 1994, LUCASFILM HELD A SERIES OF TOP-SECRET MEETINGS with Star Warslicensees. On the agenda: how to invigorate a lucrative movie franchise that hadn’t released a movie for more than a decade. Out of those brainstorming sessions — attended by Bantam author Steve Perry and representatives from LucasArts, among others — emerged a 25-page outline for…
Art by Megan Lara Cynicism is tempting. It hovers constantly at the edge of every hopeful moment, whispering “it will never happen.” It looks intelligent. It looks wry and elegant and worldly. And it has never managed to ensnare Luna Lovegood. Luna has spent years being told to give up. She has spent years being…
Dungeons & Dragons has historically used attractive monsters, and especially of the female persuasion, to appeal to potential players. Busty demons and lithe wood maidens populated its source material, namely its Monster Manual, throughout the last 40 years. With recent editions and supplements, D&D has phased out its bare-breasted female monsters and included more sexy…
Hide CM floating unit In her 2009 self-help book, “The Trump Card,” Ivanka Trump employs an audacious strategy: she portrays all of her advantages as handicaps. Credit Photograph by Damon Winter / The New York Times / Redux Barrier Status: ‘none’ Ivanka Trump’s 2009 self-help book, “The Trump Card,” opens with an unlikely sentence: “In…