Attention all slackers and ungrateful children — or, er, everyone who just hasn’t gotten around to picking up a present for their dad in advance this Father’s Day (hint: it’s Sunday). No matter what camp you’re in, Flavorwire is here to help, with a list of great books that came out in the last year that any dad is sure to like. Plus, they’re super easy to wrap. To spread the love, share the books your own dad has enjoyed in the comments. … Read More
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Famous Authors’ Funniest Inscriptions in Their Books
What’s better than a signed copy of your favorite book? Why, an inscribed copy of your favorite book, of course, preferably straight from the hand of your favorite author. While some authors tend to sign books with a simple “my best” or “thanks for reading,” others push the envelope a little more, and — especially with an author notorious for his or her humor — a signature seeker may be blessed with a quip, a bizarre turn of phrase, or even (the holy grail) a little doodle. After the jump, Flavorwire has tracked down a selection of famous authors’ amusing missives, drawings, and insults (produced upon request) as written in the first pages of their books. Check them out after the jump, and feel free to add your own in the comments.
Flavorwire Exclusive: Read an Excerpt from Stephen King’s ‘Joyland’
Flavorwire presents an exclusive excerpt of Stephen King’s newest novel Joyland, with an introduction by its editor, Charles Ardai of Hard Case Crime. Ardai writes:
“When Stephen King told me he’d just finished writing a book called Joyland, set in a small-town amusement park, and he thought it might be a good fit for Hard Case Crime, I was very excited, and not just for the obvious reason. (What publisher wouldn’t love to get a note like that from Stephen King?) The other reason I was excited is that I’ve always had a passion for amusement parks, and for novels set against that backdrop – carny novels, circus novels, novels set in county fairs or freakshows or on the Coney Island Boardwalk. We’d already done a novel set in the world of burlesque (The Corpse Wore Pasties by the pseudonymous Jonny Porkpie) and one set in Atlantic City (Casino Moon by Peter Blauner), but we’d never done an out-and-out carny novel. Here at last was our chance. … Read More
The Revealing Childhood and Teenage Letters of Pop Culture Figures
There’s something incredibly intimate about letter writing: the indelible mark on a page, the permanence of ink, and the process of consideration before putting pen to paper. Even a typewritten page feels vastly more personal than one created with a computer. While you’re scrawling a Mother’s Day card to mum or your other significant parental person this weekend, the act may take you back to simpler times during your childhood when you shared your thoughts with a pen and not an iPhone. We’re sure it’s no different for the writers, musicians, and actors we revere. Before they were the names on everyone’s lips, they were sharing their hopes, dreams, and wondering about the world through their childhood and teenage letters. See what insightful missives we uncovered, below. … Read More
A Selection of Writers Inspired By Dreams
Dreams — and nightmares — have offered an intimate wellspring of inspiration for generations of authors. From the ancient Greeks to contemporary surrealists, our subconscious meanderings have been regarded as perennially profound by the literati. Whether to celebrate their absurdity, candid insight, or liberation of repressed sentiments, these oblique visions have become inextricably woven into the collective dreaming of our cultural mythology. It’s clear that our slumbers liberate far more than just monsters from the id. Margaret Atwood revealed the inner workings of her own “psychic carburetor” in a New York Review article she penned earlier this week. We’ve shared her thoughts on dreams as inspiration past the break, along with a selection of other remarkable works that have been pollinated by their creators’ nighttime reverie. … Read More
‘Red Moon’ Author Benjamin Percy’s Favorite Wolf Stories
Next week, Benjamin Percy’s great werewolf novel, Red Moon, will come howling into bookstores with a fury, possibly destroying everything in its path. Percy’s novel manages to be blockbuster-style captivating, politically fascinating, and quite literary all at once, which makes it a solid pre-summer read, even if werewolves give you the willies. Then again, if you already like wolf stories, you’ve come to the right place — read on for Percy’s take on five of his favorites. … Read More
Your Favorite Authors’ Favorite Musicians
Here at Flavorwire of late, we’ve been looking at what some of our favorite creative types have appreciated in the work of their peers — our favorite actors’ favorite actors, etc. We do like a bit of genre cross-pollination, though, so we thought we’d extend the remit of the idea across genre lines, starting with some of our favorite authors discussing the work of the musicians who inspire, excite, or just generally impress… Read More
30 Behind-the-Scenes Monster Movie Photos That Will Blow Your Mind
Because it came out in the ‘90s and now people old enough to remember it are running websites, a lot of Internet ink has been spilled recently over the 20th anniversary of The Sandlot, writer/director David Mikey Evans’s 1993 remembrance of baseball, boyhood friends, and the summer of ’62. But the most interesting discovery of all of this nostalgia bathing was the unveiling of three photos (by Mr. Evans himself) of the elaborate puppets they used to create “The Beast,” the giant English mastiff that terrifies that neighborhood kids. Looking at those images (and you can check them out after the jump), we get a little nostalgic ourselves — for a time when computers weren’t the solution for scaring an audience, leaving artists and puppeteers to create the horrifying creatures of moviedom. Let’s take a look at how it used to be done. … Read More
Movies, Books, and Video Games Reimagined As Dr. Seuss Art
We’ve pointed you towards the ingenious work of Dr. Seuss-loving artist DrFaustusAU on a couple of previous occasions, but he’s simply outdone himself with his new Seuss-inspired take on The Evil Dead, titled The Evil Dead Are in My Shed! We were so taken by this one, in fact, that we started poking around the “Seussian Gallery” on his DeviantART site and found several additional mash-ups of Seuss and films, books, and video games. Check out our favorites after the jump. … Read More
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