Not only does nostalgia make people sound old, but the very idea of the “glory days” of anything as amorphous and fickle as punk is ludicrous: less a genre than an ideology, punk has always been more about breaking things and creating monsters out of the detritus than a particular sound...
Anyway; it’s interesting that Nicola Griffith’s books are categorized as “Lesbian fiction” in the Vancouver Public Library website catalogues. I’m wondering if there’s a whole genre there and why it’s important or significant that these three women are gay? Is it connected to independe...
What does that feel like? It feels like someone is just pulling you down with the heaviest weight you can imagine making you sink into the seat. Once you hit a certain level of G’s, your vision does start to, what we call gray out or tunnel vision where the blood is basically being...
How does my work differ from others of its genre? I’m not sure that there are others of its genre – or indeed what its genre is to start with. Clampdown is a book that no publisher other than the small and heroic Zer0 Books would have taken a punt on, being as it is a blend...
Not all of the following fall under that sub[-sub?]-genre, of course; some books I simply did not get into, or have time to finish (notably non-fiction). As in previous annual reading posts, the lightbulb icon ( 💡 ) means that while I didn’t finish the book, what little I’...
About 20 years later, deathcore is enjoying its finest moment yet, led by a new generation of bands. At the head of the pack are Slaughter to Prevail, who have become increasingly popular as frontman Alex Terrible becomes the new face of the genre. ...
About 20 years later, deathcore is enjoying its finest moment yet, led by a new generation of bands. At the head of the pack are Slaughter to Prevail, who have become increasingly popular as frontman Alex Terrible becomes the new face of the genre. ...