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While I’ve stopped writing about comics and books on Bad Lit (unless they’re underground film related), this is a special occasion. An old interview I did with legendary comic book writer Harvey Pekar for a previous website has been reprinted in the new book Harvey Pekar: Conversations, edited by Michael G.

Fitchburg State College will explore themes of contemporary Jewish literature this school year by hosting a free five-part reading and discussion series called "Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature - Identity and Imagination." The series explores Jewish literature and culture through scholar-led discussions of contemporary and classic books on a common theme.

Okay, so this is the last bit we recorded. Here we each slag something off then big something up whilst sat on special hover chairs on my spaceship in space. No photos exist of this bit as my camera was on the floor and I couldn’t reach it because my hover chair was hovering too high.

[Above, Hi-Way Wonders. Below, Dispatch delights.] MoCCA is exhibiting Kim Deitch: A Retrospective starting Sept 9th. The opening reception’s happening onSeptember 12th. Visit the website for more information and reception time. Starting Sept 2nd, Roger Langridge’s Mughwhump the Great joins Act-I-Vate  with new episodes premiering weekly.

In spite of the fact that there's no Seth Cohen equivalent on Gossip Girl (Dan is way more art gallery opening than comic book convention), geek chic never really left the cultural zeitgeist after dominating the earlier part of this decade.

In an exclusive preview to Smith Magazine’s current Next Door Neighbor feature, New York Magazine’s culture and entertainment blog, Vulture, is currently running a quite exclusive collaboration by Harvey Pekar and Rick Veitch from that series.  For one week only, afterwards it gets published on Smith.

One of our favorite new comics series is "Next-Door Neighbor," a collection of true-life tales of urban proximity from some great comics artists, being posted biweekly at SMITH Magazine, the online literary magazine whose previous comics have included Shooting War and the Hurricane Katrina story After the Deluge.

“I thought about it and I realized that i might be part of the last generation that has experienced ‘normal life’ for some time… I try to think of positive things, you know, like I’m happy about what’s been happening with my writing.

Sex and the City: The Movie opens everywhere that Cosmopolitans are sold today, and the odds are pretty good that it will make enough money to keep Sarah Jessica Parker in sundresses for the rest of her life.

On the Importance of Communicating Importance ‘Speak truth to power’ is an often cited phrase, a catch-cry for change in a world that flaunts stability. But even if we have a message, and it’s a message that matters, how do we speak its truth?