Suzanne Collins’ magnificent YA series The Hunger Games is set in a post-apocalyptic future where a single massive city, called simply “the Capitol,” maintains its luxurious splendor by subjugating the residents of twelve favelas/client-states called “Districts,” each devoted to a…
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Underthinking It: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
John Philip Sousa, novelist
First of all, if you ever intended to sit down on a beach somewhere and enjoy John Philip Sousa’s 1902 novel The Fifth String, stop reading now. This is going to be a spoiler-heavy review. (If you do want to…
Books I Want to Write #1: The Thousand Lives of Asshole Shakespeare
[I'll get back to wrapping up my "No Crying In Baseball" series next week, but for a bit, I want to start a new series -- books I fantasize about writing someday. I'll probably come back to this intermittently. It's…
Yes, *that* Vincent Price
I hardly use cookbooks anymore, but I covet the hell out of this one.