If you can’t get David Bowie to join your book club, do the next best thing and pick a book he’d recommend—his taste for Orwell is not-so-well hidden inside songs like “Big Brother.” It’s alway fun to spot a literary easter egg, tucked away in the music of everyone from hipster godfather Lou Reed to perennial Romeo-seeker Taylor Swift. […]
Hollywood feeds on writers. Now more than ever, the cinema awash in remakes, re-imaginings, sequels, and adaptations. For some writers, this is a wonderful thing. Whoever’s collecting royalty checks for Philip K. Dick must be overjoyed whenever a kid sees Blade Runner for the first time, knowing each new generation of fans will keep Dick’s […]