On HU
Robert Jones, Jr. on giving up on mainstream comics.
Matt Thorn with a brief note on Ursula K. Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Octavia Butler as uncomfortable foremother.
A.Y. Daring on wound as identity in Kindred.
Julian Chambliss looks at what scholars study when they study Octavia Butler.
Me on Octavia Butler’s mediocre prose and why it matters.
Chris Gavaler on how Fantax shows that the French know their way around super-hero violence.
I think we’ve got a couple more Octavia Butler posts next week, but then that’s it, and we’ll be back to regular old posting!
Utilitarians Everywhere
At Salon I have 19 songs that show that Jimi Hendrix was not a token.
At the Atlantic I argue that Elvis invented nothing and stole nothing.
At Splice Today I write about the great conservative novel, Gone With the Wind.
Other Links
Jeet Heer on Harold Gray and the limits of conservative anti-racism.
Noah, I just read the pieces on Elvis Presley and Margaret Mitchell. As usual, your research was good and your writing was even-handed and informative.
Thanks!