Disneyland's Space Mountain...The Graphic Novel?

Yup.

Chip Kidd's Obsession with Batman

Chip Kidd: I’m obsessed with Batman from Design Indaba on Vimeo.

The History of the Dystopian Novel

Ink Tank gives a brief overview, here.

From the piece...

Dystopia has been a recurrent theme of popular and literary fiction since way back in the eighteenth century. Evolving not simply as a response to fictional utopian concerns, but also as a response to the prevalent or ominous ideals and politics of the writer’s time, the dystopian novel tends to use its make-believe guise as a front to critique the ideologies under which they’ve been forged.

When it seeks to explore political and social shortcomings, then, these books don’t tend to be shy about their revolutionary aims. Nasty visions of totalitarian regimes and post-apocalyptic disaster scenarios litter the genre’s history, and it’s got strong links to other literary scenes, too, like travel writing, satire and, not least, science fiction. 

Adventures in Twitter Fiction

Best Books of Soccer Literature

The list, care of Flavorwire.

10 Most Badass Comic Book Heroines

The list, care of Huffington Post.

Superman at 75

Marvel Universe, On Tour

Think You Know Stephen King Movie Adaptations?

Take the quiz and find out.

And the National Book Award Finalists Are...

These ones.

Did Shakespeare Have a Hand in the Writing of OTHER Elizabethan plays?

Yes.

A Conversation with George Saunders

Want to Read the Script to the Justice League Movie That Almost Happened in 2007?

Ok. Here you go.

How to Be Creative

The Invisible Woman

The World's Oldest Jewish Prayer Book?

It has 50 pages of Jewish blessings and has been dated back to 840 C.E.

From a piece in the Daily Mail...

'This Hebrew prayer book helps fill the gap between the Dead Sea Scrolls and other discoveries of Jewish texts from the ninth and 10th centuries.'

The complete parchment is in its original binding and contains Hebrew script so archaic that its founders claim it 'incorporates Babylonian vowel pointing' - is similar to Old or Middle English when compared to the current English language.

100 Greatest Comic Book Villains of All-Time

The list, care of What Culture.

Writing About Sex

Writing about sex can be uniquely powerful — and perilous. A group of novelists, memoirists and poets tell the New York Times about working blue: what novels first inspired them, what nouns they strive to avoid and who they think writes sex best.

From the piece...

RACHEL KUSHNER: I don’t think of sex as any more difficult to write about than any other human behavior. Writers fail or soar at anything. Everyone thinks about sex, engages in it. It’s the secret we all share. Just acknowledging its constant presence in people’s thoughts is a good direction for a novelist. Of the books I like, it could be argued that sex is infused into every cadence, even if never explicitly. And “not explicit” doesn’t mean that the prudish kiss leads to the prissy dissolve, but that characters are motored by desire.

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

11 Novels That Will Creep You Out

The list, care of the Huffington Post.