All October long, Comic Book Resources is featuring the scariest comic books of all-time, as suggested by readers. Here is an archive of all the comics featured so far.
Scariest Comic Books
“Not Exactly a Hermit”
Everything we think about Henry David Thoreau is wrong.
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Travelogue as Memoir
"We are not buried in history, but surrounded by it. You can’t avoid our behavior being shaped by it, to a considerable degree. We have this fantasy that we are free of history. This allows us not to see the circumstances, the historical circumstances of other people." The Rumpus interviews Russell Banks about his new book Voyager: Travel Writings.
A History of Pen Names
This week in book-related infographics: "A History of Pen Names," from Robinson Crusoe to Dr. Seuss to Toni Morrison.
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New McEwan
We recently linked to a new interview with Ian McEwan, whose latest novel The Children Act comes out next week. The LA Times has a full review of the new book, and the piece pairs well with Charles-Adam Foster-Simard's review of McEwan's Sweet Tooth. And of course there's Atonement, which comes up in a variety of Millions articles, from Michael David Lukas's essay on the polyphonic novel to Seth Sawyer's recent piece on food and reading.
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Can’t we just go with “grey” already?
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Sic transit gloria mundi
Two sides of a related coin: on authors whose fame died before they did, and on authors who died before they finished their work.
“Unfilmable” Novel to be Filmed
Salman Rushdie’s “unfilmable” novel Midnight’s Children, winner of the "Booker of Bookers," is apparently coming to the big screen.