Daily Archives: January 23, 2018
RIP, Ursula K. Le Guin
Posted on January 23, 2018 65 Comments
The book I bought this weekend. The title is all too on point today. pic.twitter.com/Y4uAUGRdPR — John Scalzi (@scalzi) January 24, 2018 I’ve written a remembrance of Ursula K. Le Guin; it’s up at the Los Angeles Times. As I wrote there: “The speaking of her name and of her words goes on, and will […]
First Pass Oscar Predictions, 2018
Posted on January 23, 2018 38 Comments
Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences persists in nominating films and people for their “Oscars” award, which you may have heard of, and I, in a vestige of my time as a professional film critic, go through the “Big Six” categories and try to guess who and what are going to […]
The Big Idea: S. Craig Zahler
Posted on January 23, 2018 2 Comments
S. Craig Zahler writes and directs films most of the time, but the story of Hug Chickenpenny was one that called out for written rather than cinematic form. But Zahler found there was a theme that ran through his book writing efforts that ran through all his other efforts as well. He’s here to tell […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying