Blinks: Guardian, NYT reviews; Scalzi & Doctorow

April 13, 2019 LocEditor 0 Comments

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Chris Beckett, Jane Rawson, MT Hill, NJ Crosskey, Arkady Martine

» NY Times Book Review: Louisa Hall reviews Nell Freudenberger’s Lost and Wanted

» LA Times: John Scalzi interviews Cory Doctorow about Radicalized

Hey, Mr. Wizard! Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Shazam!

April 15, 2019 locusmag 0

With a single magic word, troubled youth Billy Batson (Asher Angel) gains the ability to transform into a superhero adult (Zachary Levi) and back again. What follows is to be expected from teenage boys with new toys as Billy and his foster brother Freddy (Jack Dylan Grazer) test the limits of his comically enlarged body. Josh: I laughed a lot at some of those scenes (I’d had a couple beers).

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Angela Slatter: Between the Worlds

March 19, 2018 locusmag 0

Angela Gaye Slatter was born May 16, 1967 in Cairns Australia, and grew up mostly there and in Brisbane and Ipswich. She studied French and history at the University of Queensland, later earned a master’s, and received a PhD in creative writing in 2012. She attended Clarion South in 2009, Tin House in 2006 and has taught writing at various writers’ centres, universities and festivals. Slatter’s short fiction is highly