The Popculturist reviews “Leviathan Wakes”, a new science fiction novel, and is reminded of the sense of fun that drew him to the SF genre in the first place.
I’ve Got the Screen Eyes to Prove it: How do Ebooks Really Compare to Traditional Books
Avid reader Christine Shaw Roome compares the feeling of reading an ebook to the experience of reading a traditional book. And the winner is…
“I Just Had to Write”: An Interview with Writer Kenneth J. Harvey
A dark voice out of Newfoundland, writer Kenneth J. Harvey has received accolades for his novels, stories and poems, but at heart, Harvey just writes because that’s what he has to do.
Beauty School Cop-Out
A reader who wants to like the book Kabul Beauty School can’t get her head around the author’s decision to work in a dangerous land, away from her children.
I Capture the Writing Vision
An author realizes that there are several books that need to be written to fully explain the healing novel he wrote about his father.
The Popculturist Revisits “The Neverending Story”
My copy of “The Neverending Story” is getting a bit worse for wear. The dust jacket has long since been lost, and the lettering and imprinted design on the rust-colored cover are barely visible. The binding has stiffened and the pages are becoming brittle. None of which is terribly surprising, considering that I’ve had it for 24 years, and have read it at least a dozen times.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is Still Enchanting
More than a century after The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published, children and, yes, even adults, are still enchanted by L. Frank Baum’s magical world.
NaNoWriMo: Pass the Prom Dress, ‘Cause Mama’s Got a Novel to Write
During National Novel Writing Month, our writer decides that writers really are so weird they need their own reality show. Take John Cheever, for example, who could only write in the nude. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg in literary land.
Douglas Coupland as a Massey Lecturer? Cool.
Past Massey lecturers have included Stephen Lewis, crusader in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa; R.C. Lewontin, a pioneer in evolutionary theory, genetics and molecular biology; and Ursula Franklin, respected feminist and research physicist. And this year? Douglas Coupland. Julie needed to see and hear this icon of cool with her own eyes.
I Walk Away from Publication
An author is disconcerted, but in some strange way relieved, that he walked away from two publishers interested in the book he had written.
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