Archive for the 'Books' Category

• 07.23.08 Zombies, Bridesmaids and Assassins

  A quick trip to London over the weekend gave me 20+ hours of plane time to catch up on reading. I finished three books. The first two had been sitting on my Kindle1, while the last is dead-tree-only at the moment.

  As I’ve mentioned before, screenwriters spend an inordinate amount of time thinking and talking [...]

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• 01.27.08 Manhunter = awesome

  Stuff tends to stack up in the August household.

  We have systems in place to optimize magazine readership and recycling,1 but printed objects of which I am the sole reader — comic books, scripts, serio-comic novels purchased on an Amazon spree — have a tradition of piling up on the corners of desks and counters.

  I [...]

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• 07.24.07 Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician

  Daniel Wallace, the dashing and talented writer who wrote Big Fish (the novel), has a brand new book in stores for your purchasing pleasure: Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician. I read it a bazillion years ago — books take a surprisingly long time to go from manuscript to shelf — so I’ll let [...]

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• 07.21.07 Silent Evidence

  A few weeks ago, while answering the Grey’s Anatomy question which generated so much talkback, I found myself searching for a specific term I knew had to exist: the human tendency to consider only the samples presented, ignoring other relevant items.

  It felt like a fallacy, but it didn’t quite match up to any of [...]

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