The Friday Article Roundup: Turn and Draw
The FAR has mastered rendering the pirate on the back of the matchbook and now…
Introducing The Solute Book Club
Babalugats speaking: Welcome to The Solute Book Club! Each month one Soluter will introduce a…
Freddy Got Fungooed: Widespread Panic by James Ellroy (with John “Son of Griff” Anderson)
For all readers and Ellroy fans out there: John and Grant co-hosted a LIVE reading…
The Friday Article Roundup: Take a Look, It’s in a Book
The FAR has absorbed all written human knowledge, but you puny fleshlings still have much…
Year of the Month: Miller on RAGE
Even coming back to him for the umpteenth time, decades down the line, Stephen King…
The Spiral: Avathoir and wallflower Talk About Thomas Pynchon, 11: Bleeding Edge (and a Retrospective on Everything Else Too)
“I can’t really tell objectively how sorry I should feel for myself. I don’t give…
Year of the Month 1930: The Cat Who Went to Heaven
I love cats. Ever since I was a little girl, I have loved cats completely…
The Friday Article Roundup: Welcome the Singularity!
The FAR is not fighting the coming domination by robots, but heading the line to…
Ellroycast #7: My Dark Places with Anastasia Rose Hyden (Year of the Month)
True-crime expert Anastasia Rose Hyden joins us to talk about Ellroy’s “L. A. Crime Memoir”…
Are You Happy? Puzzles, Propaganda, POPCO
Alice Butler takes the overnight train alone. She wears a necklace given to her as…