Monday, October 27, 2008

The Writing Wire for 10/27


All the news that's worth linking to:

• R.I.P. Tony Hillerman.

The Onion AV Club on the many kinds of vampires on television and in movies.

The Miami Herald's Between the Covers book blog asks: Should critics be required to read the entire book? Um, yeah...

The L.A. Times Jacket Copy blog on an unlikely bestseller. And it involves cats.

Rolling Stone has a sneak peek at Cobain Unseen, a new bio of the late singer.

• PoeWar explains how to build better conflict when writing a novel.

Advertising Age says what we've all been thinking: Twitter sucks and should die.

New York Magazine's Vulture blog discusses the trailer to Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino.

• io9 on sci-fi writers' posthumous works.

• And, in what is becoming a strange tradition here at TWW, we close out with some zombie news: PopMatters on the zombie phenomenon, and io9 posts pictures from Pittsburgh's Zombie Fest. Scary.

2 comments:

Zombie said...

Didn't realize that pic you sent me was from Zombie Fest. I went to that back in 2002... at the Monroeville Mall, which was pretty awesome. Stayed at a motel called "Al Monzo's Pleasure Palace", no joke.

Alex Segura said...

Was it awesome?