Blinks: Marlon James; Karen Tompson Walker

February 15, 2019February 15, 2019 LocEditor 0 Comments

» NY Times Book Review: Michiko Kakutani reviews Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Red Wolf

» Also, S. Kirk Walsh reviews Karen Thompson Walker’s The Dreamers

» Time Magazine: How Marlon James Built a New World in His ‘African Game of Thrones‘

My Tapeworm Tells Me What to Do: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Venom: Let There Be Carnage

October 18, 2021 locusmag 0

Reporter Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is washed up. Worse, he and his alien symbiote, Venom (also Tom Hardy), aren’t getting along too well. In classic serial killer movie fashion, incarcerated murderer Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson) declares that he’s willing to reveal where the bodies are buried but will only talk to Brock, who seizes the opportunity to try to get his career back on track. During one of their visits,

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Justin T. Call Guest Post–“Forging Literary Artifacts “

March 17, 2020 Alvaro Zinos-Amaro 0

When we speak of forging, it is usually one of two types: the first is when we create something new out of disparate materials— the type of forging usually associated with blacksmiths—but the second type is one we often associate with thieves, charlatans, and mountebanks; the kind where we create something that is fake with the intention of duping or deceiving others into believing that what we have created is