I’m going to keep this pretty much spoiler free. I am hardly the biggest Harry Potter fan on the site, I’m pretty sure that a true fan would have run screaming from the torrent website. I happen to think that Scholastic and JK Rowling’s war against spoilers was a pretty unimportant fight in the grand [...]

10. And betwixt Harry’s legs was a newly formed vagina, bright and glorious as the sun itself. 9. While the three remained friends, it was difficult to hang out while they built temples for their Lord Voldemort. 8. Street lights, people, oooooooooooh. Don’t stop 7. The Fliggid Motapoy chased Harry around the gluesornopety tree until [...]

In the literary community, we are obsessed with the old masters. Who they were, who they knew, who they loved, what they did. The days before the rise of the film as a viable alternative—and to some, a serious threat—to the written word are heralded as the golden age: it was and is known to [...]

First of all, I am aware of the fact that book was built for over-coverage. This is because a highly disproportionate number of journalists and bloggers are 30-something indie-mindset fathers of small children. In other words, we are alternadads. My daughter knows Jonathan Richman and Liz Phair songs (select Liz Phair songs, of course) and [...]

Here’s another squirrelly description of the novel writing process: You render a world, fall into it, and take a prose camera with you. But enough about that! “Where’s the payoff?” You’re wondering. “Is this guy ever going to do anything but yammer about writing novels? I don’t write, so that last paragraph is meaningless! What’s [...]

First, this week, a link. I love it, so I won’t say anything at all about it—save, perhaps, “There is a light that never goes out.” Here ‘tis. Maybe I’ll say one more thing. MFA dropouts of the world unite. Writing can’t be taught. Form can be studied, and discussed. Specificity of language and punctuation [...]

There is a light that never goes out. As I think of how I’d want to start my first post, the only thing that comes into my mind is these words, as sung by Morrissey in one of the most touchingly hopeless lovesongs around: There is a light that never goes out. Ladies and Gentlemen, [...]

Congratulations to Inside Pulse for two years of pop culture bliss. I’ve enjoyed my time here for the past year. The new layout has been streamlined and Paper Cuts has moved over to the Moodspins subsection (politics, people, and prose, sounds like the perfect place). I’m excited about all the changes, and look forward to [...]

Hey it’s Friday night Let’s go see Al Gore lecture! What a great idea You will really love A Prairie Home Companion If you are old Superman returns Superman bores audience Superman goes back I didn’t go see The World Trade Center movie I know the ending Two and a half hours Of pirates running [...]

Planning It Right (Finding Faith #1)