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[18 Aug 2010 | No Comment | ]
West Coast Wednesdays: West Coast Avengers Vol. 1, #3

It’s West Coast Wednesdays! Christian’s weekly look at the West Coast Avengers as he re-reads this classic series from his childhood. Are they as good as he remembers them? Will it be a West Coast Boast? Or a West Coast Roast? This week: West Coast Avengers #3!

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[24 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]
Writer Wednesday: Raymond Carver

Every Wednesday Christian takes a look at some of the best writing moments from his favorite writers. This week, it’s the great Raymond Carver.

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[23 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]
Long Box Tuesdays: Wolverine: Weapon X #10

Every Tuesday Christian examines some of his favorite comic book pages. This week: A brief look at a page from issue #10 of WOLVERINE: WEAPON X sparks a long look at Wolverine as a character, and how writer Jason Aaron appears to be doing everything right.

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[10 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]
Writer Wednesday: Chuck Palahniuk

Every Wednesday Christian takes a look at some of the best writing moments from his favorite writers. This week, an excerpt from an interesting interview with writer Chuck Palahniuk about…verbs?

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[27 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
Writer Wednesday: John Cheever

Every Wednesday Christian takes a look at some of the best writing moments from his favorite writers. This week, the beginning of John Cheever’s outstanding short story, Reunion.

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[20 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
Writer Wednesday: Kurt Vonnegut

Every Wednesday Christian takes a look at some of the best writing moments from his favorite writers. This week, it’s the amazing Kurt Vonnegut and a selection from BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS, one of the great American novels.

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[13 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
Writer Wednesday: Grant Morrison (yeah, again!)

Every Wednesday Christian takes a look at some of the best writing moments from his favorite writers. This week, it’s the return of Grant Morrison.

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[1 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
Happy New Year…

…see you in a week.

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[23 Dec 2009 | One Comment | ]
Favorite Quotes: Mark Z. Danielewski

I think that the way I approach books is not from the position of contention against that world, just simply saying, “Well, why do I want to read a book that takes me four days that I could basically see in a movie that takes me two hours?” A lot of what’s at stake today is how we allocate our time and how much we have. So for me, I want to read a book – and hence I will write a book – that can offer me an experience …

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[16 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Favorite Quotes: Grant Morrison

Think of a STORY. My contention is that a story can be made sufficiently complex that it achieves some measure of self-awareness – in fact I believe this is what’s happening when authors talk about characters ‘taking control’ or when they say ‘the story just took a turn I wasn’t planning…’. When I was doing The Invisibles, I was definitely aware of the book as a living entity which was interacting with me in many of the ways a human being might but at the time I was thinking of this …

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