A Writer's Desk

Some unfortunate news is coming out of Alaska. A fan of Chris McCandless, subject of Jon Krakauer's amazing book Into the Wild and, of...

Care of Let's Be Friends Again, via the Comics Alliance .

With his hunched back and deformed face, Quasimodo, the tragic hero of Victor Hugo's novel The Hunch Back of Notre Dam e, has always bee...

Care to know? Look no further than at Marvel . From the story... Later stories, such as the classic CAPTAIN AMERICA Vol. 1 #355 by Roger Ste...

For the Guardian , Ian Rankin discusses Robert Louis Stevenson's classic work, published in 1886. From the piece ... Think you know this...

The list , care of the CBC.

His name was Dr. Frederic Wertham who thought comic books were corrupting the minds of our youth. Booktryst has more, here . From the piece....

There's someone writing poetry and leaving it anonymously on people's doorsteps in Morgantown, West Virginia. Who is it? The Charles...

On Tor there's an interesting essay about Robert Heinlein writing science fiction for the Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s, a ti...

This , according to child psychologists. From a piece in the Guardian ... They thwart dastardly supervillains and have saved the world count...

The classic book is now 50 years old . The eggs are probably green now because they've been moldering for 50 years so I would not attemp...

You can now hang your favorite book on the wall. Thanks, Postertext !

The New York Times takes a look into Archie Comics' expanding empire. From the piece ... At 68 years old, Archie is suddenly looking aw...

For reals. New York Magazine has an image of the cover .

That's the question that the Washington Post recently asked . Who uses pseudonyms and why? From the piece... "The transparent pseu...

"Shark's Teeth" by Kay Ryan:

ACK! Cathy is no longer after 34 years as a daily comic strip. From a piece in the Los Angeles Times ... On Wednesday, "Cathy" cr...

They've collaborated together on a children's book. The National Post has more . From the piece... After self-publishing Wish, the ...