Posts filed under: Literature

Late last year, I received for the first and last time since, emails from readers of my blog. One hired me as a freelance writer on a project I greatly...
After finishing Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein, I poked around the interior of my Kindle for a new book. I have a habit of picking things up while they’re on...
Look, I’m just going to lay all my cards on the table here so that you know where we’re going. Starship Troopers might be the best book ever written. Now...
I walked into a professor’s office in November or December 2013 and told him that I was going to have three classes with him the following semester. His response stuck...
I recently finished reading Michael Crichton’s The Lost World, the sequel to Jurassic Park. About three-quarters of the way through the book, I realized that I didn’t hate the kids...
Ready Player One was a good, not great movie. Go see it if you’ve read the book and liked it. Or sort of liked it. Go see it if you’re...
It’s been almost a year since I left graduate school. I left for a lot of reasons, but one of the big ones was my general dissatisfaction with the program....
I like books a lot. Some of them are so good, I could go on forever about them. Kind of the inverse of how some movies are so bad I...
Just what is a genre? After discovering, once again, that online dictionaries are almost entirely useless for answering a question with any degree of subtlety, I found myself returning to...
Okay, so I did a bad thing yesterday and wrote an entire article about how Star Wars just might be America’s National Epic, but then I didn’t actually build the...