Years ago, someone gave my wife a copy of The Lord of the Rings, but she only got started reading it in earnest a few months ago. I myself have read LOTR, tw...

The last three or four weeks, I've consistently read articles talking about how bored people are given all the time they have cooped up in their homes. I jus...

Stitcher's 3rd Marvel collab illustrates the strengths and drawbacks of the podcast medium. Between November of last year and the end of January, Stitcher re...

This oddly structured book reminded me of my own oddly structured book. Is Lisa Halliday's Asymmetry--which is marketed as a novel on its cover--actually a n...

Similar to the last book I reviewed (George RR Martin's Fire & Blood), Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is a difficult book to categorize. Ostensibly it is a...

I don't know if Fire & Blood was good, but without a doubt, it was impressive. George RR Martin's Fire & Blood is a hard book to categorize and therefore it'...

11 reviews of one paragraph or less. I made it a goal this year to write and post reviews for every book I read this year. Well... it's December and I've don...

A few days ago I was clicking around on Goodreads when I came upon a list of anticipated literary fiction for 2019. Whereas virtually every book had a rating...

In "Slow Pop," one of the "stories" in Klosterman's new collection entitled Raised in Captivity, an unnamed narrator tells us: I want to tell you about this ...

My story, "Holes," which I actually wrote probably ten years ago or so, was just published in the Medium publication, P.S. I Love You, a publication centered...

I'm still trying to catch up on my goal of writing at least a short review for every book I read in 2019. As such, I thought I could pair two reviews into on...

Listen to my amateurish music... In about a month I'll be starting a new job running marketing for a music education startup here in NYC. As such, music--and...

Adrian Tomine proves why he's one of the giants of the graphic novel. For the most part, I have a serious dislike for when people give superlatives in one me...

Excited to announce that my story, "The Sorceress's Husband" was just published in BFS Horizons, the journal of the British Fantasy Society. It's one of my f...

The follow-up to the surprising Wolverine: The Long Night unfortunately gives listeners exactly what they'd expect from a Wolverine podcast. I previously wro...

My second reading of Raymond Carver's first collection of stories re-confirmed Carver's stature as one of the all-time great short story writers. When I was ...

I've been trying to write reviews of all the books I've read in 2019 and have fallen terribly behind. In order to catch up, I decided to combine several revi...

Television execs are betting big on fantasy IP, but I still haven't heard any confirmations of what is obviously the best choice. In the coming several years...

My novel, The Childless Ones, was released about four months ago now (the ebook a little before that). While sales have been about what I'd expected and I'm ...

One of the criticisms I've had of the modern superhero industry (by which I'm referring to the commerce engine that starts with comics, gives us an endless s...