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Postmodernist Identity, part 1: IPCRESS, Bond, Austin Powers, and G.I. Joe
OK, time to get really geeky. Paul’s recent post mentioning Len Deighton’s The IPCRESS File (1962) jostled a few thoughts I’ve had about—well, about G.I. Joe. And pulp. Which I’ll get to. But first:...
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Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James Wood’s How Fiction Works
A pleasant looking book. [Update: As if this post weren't long enough, there's now a Part 2.] On January 22, I read Shya Scanlon’s post “The Dull King”; on January 25 I read his second post “Cover Your...
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Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work!!
I recently acquired Kitchen Sink’s The Outer Space Spirit collection, two months’ worth of Spirit comic strips from 1952, written by Jules Feiffer (yes) and drawn by Wally Wood. They are truly...
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A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Source Code, Moon, and Uncle Boonmee Who Can...
[You click this link, you go back to the first installment, which found me and Jeremy unable to get service at an Applebee’s, following a screening of Duncan Jones’s Source Code. Increasingly hungry,...
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An Interview with Me at Untoward
just went up—well, Part One did, in which Matt Rowan asks me questions about my first book (Amazing Adult Fantasy), G.I. Joe, geek culture, Ota Benga, Ayn Rand, George Orwell, and bad writing habits;...
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