Aerial Acrobatics[1] and Gender Reassignment Surgery[2] – A How-To Guide The barrel roll is a combination of roll, pitch and yaw. The aircraft describes a horizontal spiral through the sky… To enter the barrel roll, we start with the…
Though if it were, things would appear brighter, at first glance. For instance: you would be that girl who is very smart and very pretty and never has to shave her legs because body hair is too fine a detail…
The exact definition of neo-soul may not be clear, but one thing is: Alicia Keys is not neo-soul. Neo-soul, a loosely-defined subgenre of R&B that arose in the 1990s, has very conscious roots in funk and soul, as well as…
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction is a unique and very interstitial writing guide that uses original images and visual exercises to educate and inspire. The book won the 2014 British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Non-Fiction,…
I, Henry Lien, declare: 1. I am the former Trustee of the Trust of Thornton J. Hess (the “Trust”). Except where noted, the following facts are of my own personal knowledge and, if called as a witness, I could and…
In the spring of 2013, the CSUN chapter of Sigma Tau Delta hosted a student conference titled Worlds Between. Early in the day, one student presenter, Karlee Johnson, remarked that an interstice is not a “void to get lost in…
Between populist fictions and avant-garde experiment there are a series of hinterlands of stylistic and conceptual excess where the two meet and interact. I argue that these liminal spaces mirror both the linkages and critique of globalisation, and they also…
“A novel is a tricky thing to map.” So says the twelve-year-old narrator of Reif Larsen’s The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet (2009). Certainly, this book can’t be easily tacked to any of the usual genre categories, although it could…
Sometimes, the map is the memory. I read somewhere once that the shaman’s song guides her across the landscapes of the soul. Her telling of the tale, reciting the journey, makes the power real.
It’s hard to forget the cadence of the opening paragraphs of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
