Moebius: 40 Days in the Desert
French comic book artist and illustrator Jean Giraud (1938-2012), aka Moebius, has had, perhaps, a more profound influence on the Continue reading
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Seoul Stories: Han Kang, Violence and Candlelight
The day I stood shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of thousands of my fellow civilians, staring down the barrels of Continue reading
Calvino’s Cosmicomics: Time and the Hunter (or t zero)
To me, there’s virtually no doubt that Italo Calvino is a literary genius. Each one of his works create either Continue reading
Creating a Character, 2: Bernard Malamud and J.G. Ballard
The question remains: How does a skilled writer establish a good character in so few pages? And how does it relate to their overall style and composition?
Abjection and the Real
Psychoanalysts Julia Kristeva and her predecessor Jacques Lacan have baffled graduate students for years due to their opaque and relentless Continue reading
Creating a Character: Carver and Cheever
The short story, the ever neglected cousin of the novel, requires many of the same techniques used in the composition Continue reading
Philip K. Dick’s Martian Time-Slip and Pragmatic Knowledge
Philip K. Dick is, without a doubt, one of the most interesting writers of the 20th century. His prose is Continue reading
Borges and Murakami: Philosophy in Fiction
Borges and Murakami Philosophy in fiction has had a long and storied history, from the mythology of Ancient Greece to Continue reading
