Another year, another New Year’s resolution to read all the books I’ve been putting off reading for the last five years or so. It’s always the same story: “This year I’m going to do it! I’m going to do more yoga and learn French and finally read War and Peace!” Well, after almost two months […]
The key to a good space opera is that second word: opera. It hints at the sort of epic span these stories cross, and the scope and intensity of the emotions they stir. At its heart, a true space opera is about people and the decisions they make, and have to live with. If you […]
Reading fiction can transport you—the imagery and sound of language carries the reader to far off realms, like the lands of Ancient Greece, or the Ming Dynasty of the East. Food has a similar quality, with sights, smells, and tastes stimulating the senses. And pairing together literature and cuisine, well, that goes together as beautifully […]
Most careers are ones you can, or get, to retire from at a certain age. Not writing! Authors get wiser and actually become better writers with the age and experience of a life well lived, and most keep writing up until the bitter end. And sometimes they were so, so close to finishing up just […]
In Void Trip, writer Ryan O’Sullivan, artist Plaid Klaus, and letterer Aditya Bidikar have taken the template of the all-American, ’60s-era hippy road-trip, launched it into space and used it to dive into some impressively dark and philosophical territory. Ryan and Klaus were good enough to talk to us about the just-out book, published by Image […]
