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Comics Writer Ed Brubaker Talks Crime, Drugs, Maps, and Growing Up

If Ed Brubaker is getting tired by now, he isn’t showing it. Twenty-three years after he first teamed up with artist Sean Phillips (on an out-of-continuity Batman noir story called Gotham Noir), the comic writer has been around the block more than few times.Dave Bautista Opens Up About His Relationship With Denis VilleneuveHe found breakout success with his six-year stint writing (and briefly killing) Marvel’s Captain America; co-authored the critically beloved cop drama-by-way-of-DC-Comics series Gotham Central; achieved…

12 Sci-Fi Stories Written Before Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Like her titular protagonist, when Mary Shelley published Frankenstein in 1818, she knew not what she had wrought into the world. Her tale of science taken too far birthed what many consider the first science fiction novel… and what some don’t. As it turns out, there are several tales told before the 19th century that…Read more... Like her titular protagonist, when Mary Shelley published Frankenstein in 1818, she knew not what she had wrought into the world. Her tale of science taken too far birthed what many consider…

Essay: The novel and the love letter

If you Google the term “love-letter writer,” your top hits will be websites that offer help with college admission essays, professional statements of purpose, resumes and CVs, along with letters articulating – get this – professionally written love letters promising to bring back olde-world style and charm. I even came across a website called Pop Your Career – Turn Your Cover Letter into a Professional Love Letter. I guess people who seek the services of CV and application writers can just as well drift into the need for…