Turns out it wasn’t just the SFF crowd who aren’t fans of YA. (Though I suspect that SFF folk have particularly painful memories of being a teen and being oppressed by other teens.) I heard the following a lot: “Teens are awful. Being a teen was awful. Why on Earth would you ...
Harry Potter fans’ queer reading practices were further encouraged by the long-lived dedication of media fans to homoerotic fan fiction, known as “slash.” As experienced media fans migrated to the Harry Potter fandom, they brought with them the queer traditions established elsewhere (Hellekson an...
As the number of hyper-knowledgeable literary fans grows, students and researchers in English departments waiver between dismissing and harnessing voices outside the academy. Meanwhile, the role that the university plays in contemporary literary fiction is becoming increasingly complex and metafictional, ...
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He was the first important jazz soloist to emerge and is still loved by fans, who fondly refer to him by his nickname " Satchmo". Jazz's brass instruments are often played alongside drums and stringed instruments. However, the two key elements of jazz are swing and improvisation. Sw...
Thus, it might strike some that his fans’ clamoring for more, Read More Sandy Ferber´s rating: 4 | Robert Silverberg | Short Fiction, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 4 comments | Magazine Monday: Weird Tales Weird Tales celebrates “Uncanny Beauty” in the Summer 2010 issue (No. ...
Commonjazzinstrumentsaretrombones,tubas,saxophonesand,ofcourse,trumpets.Indeed,oneofjazzsmostinfluentialmusicianswasatrumpetplayer;LouisArmstrong.Hewasthefirstimportantjazzsoloisttoemergeandisstilllovedbyfans,whofondlyrefertohimbyhisnicknameSatchmo. Jazzsbrassinstrumentsareoftenplayedalongsidedrumsandstringedinstruments...
•The third edition ofHuizache, the literary magazine produced by the University of Houston-Victoria’s Center for Mexican American Literature and Culture, comes out Oct. 15. The issue will include works byCristina García,Juan Felipe Herrera,Domingo MartinezandHéctor Tobar.The $15 issue can be...
Improv. Disney produced an unprecedented 80 percent of the top box office hits this year. The Decade Disney Won. And one last time, for old time’s sake: The 10 Best Stories In the Star Wars Expanded Universe. the full corporate takeover of fan culture has turned fans from a subculture...
Not only is it a useful tool for shutting down dissenting voices, the existence of these angry-nerd movements among fans and consumers does what fascistic movements always do: divide the working class by getting some of them to identity with the boss, which in this case serves to shore up ...