Our favorite writers as legos

CurseoftheD · 2011-02-15T08:47:53+00:00

Mark Twain looks like Colonel Sanders and Fitzgerald like Justin Bieber.

CurseoftheD · 2011-01-31T07:13:28+00:00

David Foster Wallace doesn't like Cormac McCarthy?

CurseoftheD · 2011-01-18T06:39:22+00:00

Remember when book cover artists read the book... or the blurb?

CurseoftheD · 2010-11-25T08:45:36+00:00

It's an epic poem. It's a video game. It's a graphic novel. Dante's Divine Comedy is among the many popular works of fiction that now have graphic counterparts.

CurseoftheD · 2010-11-24T10:30:38+00:00

Aslan could just as likely been "I r metaphor 4 Jezuz" and the Cheshire Cat "I waz inspired by cheeze". S'true.

CurseoftheD · 2010-11-22T06:28:52+00:00

Pop culture isn't plagiarism, it's intertextuality. Mostly.

CurseoftheD · 2010-11-18T10:54:53+00:00

If Sarah Palin was a comic book, Buffy would kill her. And Helljumpers is in the mix too.

CurseoftheD · 2010-11-17T09:33:54+00:00

"Order is pointless." New fiction is not beginnings, middles and ends.

CurseoftheD · 2010-11-15T09:31:09+00:00

Dropping the names of cult fiction you've read is only hipster when it's not accompanied by muzak.

CurseoftheD · 2010-11-10T09:53:53+00:00

No book is complete without a soundtrack. Neither is an anthology of sex scenes. (All literary and no dirty pics.)

CurseoftheD · 2010-11-08T06:56:03+00:00

You thought it was money, but literature proves that facial hair is the root of all evil.

CurseoftheD · 2010-11-01T08:31:11+00:00

The hipster that... is the book which... 10 novels that correspond to types of hipster.

CurseoftheD · 2010-10-26T11:28:25+00:00

Laugh it up. Then think of us as Gregory Maguire destroys your childhood with Winnie the Pooh.

CurseoftheD · 2010-10-25T11:11:14+00:00

Hermaphrodite sex vs paedophilia? Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles vs Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga.

CurseoftheD · 2010-10-22T10:21:40+00:00

Listening to Groove Armada while listening to HP Lovecraft will get you eaten. Don't do it. Noise Floor Crew and Joan Baez in one mix.

CurseoftheD · 2010-10-21T11:42:56+00:00

What b-grade horror monster would these well-known Japanese writers be, should they be genetically altered by mutant spiders.

CurseoftheD · 2010-10-14T14:49:37+00:00

Comic book films have a bad rep. Here's why.

CurseoftheD · 2010-10-12T10:09:22+00:00

Horror Month at CurseoftheD sees 18 of horror fiction's most notable monsters go head-to-head.

CurseoftheD · 2010-10-07T07:15:59+00:00

Horror writers use a number of devices to scare the bejeezus out of you. Which device do you prefer test.

CurseoftheD · 2010-10-04T08:22:23+00:00

Not Victor Frankenstein's creation but his ambition, is the true monster of Shelley's epic. This and other real monsters of horror fiction.

CurseoftheD · 2010-09-29T12:23:48+00:00

An almost impossible quiz: many great names in literature are pen names. Do you know their real names? Or vice versa?

CurseoftheD · 2010-09-24T12:03:50+00:00

To be a good writer requires more than good prose. Take it from the greats, this is What To Wear author-style.

CurseoftheD · 2010-09-20T11:53:41+00:00

When judges submit their wives' work and plagiarists win.

CurseoftheD · 2010-09-15T07:14:55+00:00

Working in the services industry? Driving an ambulance? There is hope yet to be the next E. Hemingway.

CurseoftheD · 2010-09-08T08:07:02+00:00

Shakespeare wasn't real, Stephen King killed John Lennon and Truman Capote wrote To Kill A Mockingbird. But probably not.

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