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I've been getting a lot of flak about my favourite style, but I'd like to finish the poem. No guessing where I should stop Exposing genre anathema Too much vernacular ...
When I describe my recent novel, The Redemption Center is Closed on Sundays, as a SFF mystery romance, people frequently ask, “Wasn’t it difficult writing a murder mystery?” Yes, i...
Hear Blake Snyder explain the components of each of his 10 genres in this Save the Cat! podcast. The post Best of Blake! Save the Cat!® Podcast: Blake Snyder Explains His Genres ap...
The March roundup of our punk column ‘In Defense of the Genre’ includes recent news, reviews, and features, along with a list of the best songs of the month.
20 years after release, 'See No Evil' reemerges as a premier example of the slasher genre's beautiful, filthy past.
The play delivers a witty defense of the romance genre, reveling in the tropes Shakespeare invented in Much Ado, even as it winkingly pokes fun at them.
The 80’s were a wild time for films and the entertainment industry at large, since there was a lot of experimentation searching for what might stick with audiences. Comedies and ac...
Genre is a weird beast, often hard to spot in the wild, let alone when you are devising a story. When I wrote the first of my six published psychological thrillers, Close To Me, I...
The April roundup of our punk column ‘In Defense of the Genre’ includes recent news, reviews, and features, along with a list of the best songs of the month.
by James Scott Bell @jamesscottbell Every now and again I hear some author putting down how-to-write books. “You can only learn to write by writing,” they’ll say. “Don’t waste your...
At the Author Lunch with Colson Whitehead, the conversation moved between reading, rejection, labor, and artificial intelligence. Whitehead spoke as an indoor child shaped by The T...
At the Author Lunch with Colson Whitehead, the conversation moved between reading, rejection, labor, and artificial intelligence. Whitehead spoke as an indoor child shaped by The T...
There’s a case to be made that the heist film is the last mainstream genre where structure itself is the spectacle. Not... The post Are Heist Films the Last Genre Built Around Pure...
I’m a huge fan of nostalgia. And as a Child of the ’80s, comic books have always played a role in my life — mostly nostalgic, these days. Batman, G.I. Joe and The Transformers have...
After 'Weapons' and 'Barbarian,' it's time we start calling horror the genre of Zach Cregger, this generation's horror master.
In Everthing Is Now, J. Hoberman chronicles a radical avant-garde's attempts to jostle New York City out of its postwar complacency and moral retrenchment.
God versus Satan, Good over Evil, Darkness against Light…Chunky or Smooth peanut butter—the battle lines are drawn in our beloved books and movies. The search I took seeking the pe...
A look at how feminine intuition shaped the noir genre through Dorothy B. Hughe's 1947 novel and Nicholas Ray's beloved film adaptation.
In an era that prizes passion, “reasonableness” gets caricatured as political cowardice or bloodless neutrality. A new book says it’s exactly what we need.
Is this the least annoying talking-animal movie since the Babe series?!
Shots fired.
Kelsey Dionne, the creator of Shadowdark, was on the Dungeon Master Diaries podcast and mentioned something that clicked in my head in a way I had never considered. Kelsey mentione...
50 years ago, the Judgement of Paris played a major role in solidifying the prestige of Cabernet Sauvignon made in the United States. Soon after, a number of...
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