I just read Nameen Gobert Tilahun’s excellent article in Fantasy Magazine about a recent list of top 25 Black superheroes. It got me thinking about the relative lack of Latino superheroes (though there have been more recently), and the stereotypes and other oddities about the way Latinos are often featured in comics. And of course it got … More Top 12 Latino Superheroes
I’ve always loved Les Mis, but now it has an entirely new layer of meaning….
I saw Burn After Reading on Friday night with Hassan and my friend Logan. It wasn’t quite what I was expecting but still well worth seeing. The cast is a veritable Justice League of actors, with Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, and Frances McDormond, all of whom give great performances. John Malkovich is amazing … More Burn After Reading – not quite as advertised, but worth seeing
Dreaming Again, an anthology of Australian fantasy and science fiction edited by Jack Dann, just came out in the U.S. last week. It includes “This is My Blood,” a story I co-wrote with my friend Chris Lynch at Clarion South. It’s my first published story, and I’m pretty psyched about it. The book is a sequel to Dreaming Down Under, … More Dreaming Again Out in the U.S.
Bread & Magic 