On HU
Featured Archive Post: Kinukitty on what’s wrong with Daniel Clowes’ Ghost World.
Me on Colson Whitehead’s Zone One and the dream of zombie assimilation.
Rebecca Field makes a militant homosexual dress and talks about dyke marches.
Ng Suat Tong argues (contra me) that the Morales/Baker Truth, and its take on the black Captain America, really is not very good.
Tracy Q. Loxley argues (contra me) that rock is too dead.
Stacey Donovan, author of the wonderful YA novel Dive, talks about how she became a writer.
Roy T. Cook asks, was Spider-Woman harmed by that Milo Manara cover?
Sean Michael Robinson on the songwriting of Kate Bush.
Utilitarans Everywhere
At Pacific Standard I argued that online harassment of women isn’t a gamer problem.
At Splice Today I wrote about
— A.O. Scott, children’s lit and how the patriarchy loves stories about dead patriarchs.
— the most influential male country singer of all time.
The folks at the Center for Digital Ethics collected some of their essays (including a few of mine) into a dead tree thing. So if you want to read my prose embedded in dead trees, here’s your chance.
At the Chicago Reader I make some recommendations for things to see at the Chicago art expo.
Other Links
Brendan Nyhan on why science journals need to report negative results.
Tressie McMillan Cottom on feminism, class, Lean In, and other matters.
Nice piece evaluating Hauerwas’ theological contributions at First Things.
Darren Chetty on why non-white kids need to see themselves in children’s lit.
Will Wilkinson points out that Tom Frank doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Mary McCarthy on losing her house.
Nicky Smith, on how Steely Dan is still great.
Noah, you probably already know this, but there’s a big article about Marston in this week’s New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/22/last-amazon
Yep; I know. It’s Jill Lepore; her book on him is coming out in October 28, pretty much perfectly timed to suck publicity away from my more humble effort (out early 2015.) Sort of what every author has nightmares about.
Oh, man, I’m sorry. I have a friend who’s devoted years to writing a memoir about her years as a Forest Service firefighter, so couple of years ago, I created and sent her a fake New York Times review of a 100% identical memoir as an April Fool’s prank. It apparently gave her the scare of her life for about 15 minutes. I hope there are enough differences between your and Lepore’s books that this isn’t the real-life version of that. Maybe some publications will compare and contrast the two books; The New York Review of Books does that all the time.
The books are very different; hers is a biography and mine is devoted to analyzing the comics. She’s way, way more famous than me though. It’s hard to tell how much it matters, is the truth. I don’t know that mine was ever likely to break sales records, so…
Have you heard anything about the Lepore book – as in whether it’s any good? A straight biography sounds kind of boring.
I read a preview! I should have a review coming out when the book hits, so don’t want to say a ton, but I think the New Yorker article gives a good sense. Marston had a pretty interesting life.