Part of the genius ofCurb Your Enthusiasmis that it's impossible to tell where the real Larry David ends and the fictional David begins. After all, this is a man who used to go out on stage for stand-up shows, peer at the audience and then walk off if he didn't like the look of...
(given the Junior by her mother, Mary C. McCall, as a flex against the patriarchy (her father specifically)) was a busy and well-paid writer of magazine fiction when she decided to take on a longer piece, a novel. Looking around for material, she thought of her girlhood friend, ...
I guess I can’t say I blame them. I suppose I wouldn’t want anyone to know I wrote, and published, something so distasteful. Objectification at any level, even the biceps of fictional characters, is just wrong. Did the editors at Tor.com know this was going to be published? If the...
When I was teaching, I didn’t have any white students at all, and I struggled to find good books with minority MCs. Also, I refused to include books in my classroom that were pro one race over another. People who exclude all races but their own are just as bad as the KKK (I’m...
was skull-like; growing out of the scalp there were meager tufts of brown hair. You’re an ugly brute whoever you are, I told the face in the glass. But I knew who he was; he was the owner of the clothes in the suitcase. For a few seconds that afternoon I had balanced on the...
I started with a heroine wanting to escape a world that had reduced her to breeding stock. I guess it’s a deep-seated fear of mine as a woman, especially so when I was younger, lol. We’re watching the new series based on the book with Elizabeth Moss playing Offred. It’s brillian...
(1944) – If the Twilight Zone had been made in the 1940s, I could see the plot of this movie being an episode – how, with the right motivation, anyone could have been convinced to see the same views as the Nazis. Doesn’t work as well today, but at least it was killer ...
This is demonstrated, for example, in Stephanie Meyers’ vampire phenomenon, theTwilightseries (2005–2008), in which the existence of monsters is deliberately introduced in the woodland setting: ‘Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing...
Whenever I have first conversations like this with other designers, we always find each other talking from another dimension in the twilight zone (or at least "on another page"). BTW, in my view, what I propose is trying to move TOWARDS the higher-level....
Rod– We often walk off after doing the show and say, ‘Well, that was different’ [Laughs]. But sometimes it’s a good different. Sometimes it’s not. One time, we went to Phoenix, doing the whole play and I was on the verge of being sick. I was getting worse and worse through...