The problem with Guster is that they're really not a good band at all, and their fans generally have no taste. They're kind of like a more stripped-down Barenaked Ladies, always right on the edge of being nothing more than a forgettable novelty act. Remember when they released that whole album of theirs with cat…

I heard A Gray Man Writes
got banned somewhere in these comments. Does anyone have the story?

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Haha, my brother lives there. Next to the giant playground. And the giant park. And the secondhand baby clothes store.

Someone should take the narration from MARCH OF THE PENGUINS and mash it up with this film's visuals.

I wrote a short horror film, "The Thing Inside," that won a little contest, about a girl who gets pregnant in a world without pregnancy, where all the babies are picked from cabbage patches and delivered by storks, and I think the subject transferred to the horror genre really well. It really would be terrifying to…

Though of course by "this space" she probably just meant the Books section.

Is anyone else checking this space every so often in anticipation of the online poll?
The tension is killing me.

WOLVERINE may have been the worst superhero film ever. This is going to be terrible as long as that writer is involved.

I just ordered it. I'm contemplating becoming a Hoban completist, RIDDLEY was that good.

As an author though, you could really have a lot of fun with your ability to change people's perceptions of your work by what you say about it in interviews.

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MOST child molestations may not be done by Catholic Priests, but that's a hella-shitty TU QUOQUE sort of excuse if I've ever heard one. Besides, even allowing that it's true, you would be hard pressed to come up with another comparable global organization that so systematically facilitates, allows, and protects such…

Writing a screenplay really is one of the best things a writer can do for him or her self. Immersing one's self in the way every scene in a screenplay needs to lead to the next, and that every scene needs to move the story-as-a-whole forward is something that every author ought to be at least passingly familiar with.…

Author interviews can offer good clues to better understanding a work, but they can also just kill the experience of reading it sometimes, by being too reductive or final. (Joshua Ferris's interview here after we discussed THEN WE CAME TO THE END is one example of that.) Ultimately a work needs to stand alone, and…

Two good responses. Thanks. I suppose a lot of it just comes down to personality, too—when I grew disillusioned with my childhood religion, began researching it, and found out the degrees of its murderous history, bigoted doctrines, and cultlike qualities, I not only quit going but I had my name legally removed from…

Montypark, you seem like a reasonable fellow—but I'm curious to know why someone would remain Catholic after decades of such scandals coming to light about the Church's leadership. Do you believe that the Pope is infallible, or that the Church that brought about all these crimes (and centuries of various others…

I've taught classes before, but I'm not doing that right now. Now it's grant-money and finishing school and not a whole lot of publishing at the moment. You're probably actually much better at balancing multiple activities than I am—it's really not one of my strengths.

Very good point. Also, I don't think Dean Koontz ever does revisions. I read one book of his which spent twenty pages talking about this waitress and her horrible childhood and then never mentioned her again. Hoban's years spent with RIDDLEY WALKER is evident on every page.

Thanks for asking, Swibble—and yeah, I wrote a book called TOWNS OF THE SANDIA MOUNTAINS, published by Arcadia Publishing in 2006, but I don't hype it too much because it's really only of interest to people who live in central New Mexico. It's totally regional, and just an outgrowth of some personal local interests…