Tag: Marvel
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Black Panther is Uh…Interesting
Thither art spoilers ahead. Continueth at thy own risk. 1. As a writer in the Trump and Black Lives Matter era, I would never write a black American character who is rightfully angry about racial injustice and believes in pan-African liberation but then be like “wayment…we can’t have this black dude with common sense radical […]
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Margaret Atwood on Dystopias, and Sci-Fi Exploring NYC’s Hispanic Roots…
Margaret Atwood: ‘All dystopias are telling you is to make sure you’ve got a lot of canned goods and a gun’ (The Guardian) When The Handmaid’s Tale was published, she says, the novel was reviewed by British critics as an enjoyable fantasy, and by the Canadians with a certain anxiety (“Could it happen here?”). In […]
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Publishing House Seals Deal with Marvel, Understanding the ‘Slush Pile’…
What really happens to manuscripts sent to publishers? (ABC Online) In recent years the cobweb-draped tower of manuscripts tottering in the cleaning cupboard of a publishing house has been replaced with an electronic file on somebody’s hard drive. The slush pile, however, is not on the way out. Increasingly, it’s an avenue for emerging writers who […]
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