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Today's Earworm: Never Enough

Today I woke up with Never Enough from the musical film The Greatest Showman running between my ears. This actually isn't unusual; when one of my sons insisted we watch the movie a few months ago (yes, I've raised my children right, they don't

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Today's Earworm: Can You Read My Mind?

Today I can't get John Williams' The Flying Sequence/Can You Read My Mind? from Superman, The Motion Picture out of my head. No idea why it showed up this morning. We rewatched Superman for the first time in forever a couple of weeks ago. Plus, I

House Of Thorns

(Originally published in May, 2023) Rose/House, the new novella from Hugo award-winning author Arkady Martine, is a murder mystery wrapped around meditations on the cult of celebrity and the power of art. At the center of it all is an artificial intelligence, as compelling and as thoroughly imprisoned

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Spiritual Space

I came into my re-read of C. S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy ( Out Of The Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength) with some trepidation. My world view has changed since I last read it 20 or more years ago. I remembered little of the first book, dreaded the second,

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Teachers and Schoolgirls: My Struggles With Literary Fiction

I am not a fan of literary fiction. I’m a genre fiction man, top to toe. Litfic is mundane: college professors, teachers, writers, businessmen, all having midlife crises, affairs, fixating on people they shouldn’t. Impotent husbands, philandering wives, rebellious children…they bore me. I know not all litfic

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Silo vs. Severance: Twins From Different Mothers

This is part two of my series about the Apple TV+ series Silo and about the books it is adapted from. The first part was about the art and practice of adapting literary works for movies and TV. This part is a look at Silo and another popular Apple TV+

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Silo And The Art Of Adaptation

This is the first of two essays on the Apple TV+ show Silo, and contains spoilers for the book Wool and the first two seasons of Apple TV+’s Silo TV series. Part two is here. Adaptation is a fraught thing. How does someone convert one medium into another? Surely

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