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Category: Video
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A video review of the newest novel by Stephen Graham Jones, Growing Up Dead in Texas (Video Blog Ep 011)
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Novel Easter Eggs, part 4 – Fight Club and The Canterbury Tales (Video Blog Ep 010)
Easter Eggs, you know, those hidden references in movies, books, websites, and more that aren’t necessary but are damn fun in a treasure hunt sort of way. I planted a few (13 to be exact) in my newest novel, I Didn’t Mean to be Kevin. In this, part 4 (of4), I reveal references to Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club) and Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales).
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Novel Easter Eggs, part 3 – Catch-22 and Gatsby eggs (Video Blog Ep 009)
Easter Eggs, you know, those hidden references in movies, books, websites, and more that aren’t necessary but are damn fun in a treasure hunt sort of way. I planted a few (13 to be exact) in my newest novel, I Didn’t Mean to be Kevin. In this, part 3 (of4), I reveal references to Joseph Heller (Catch-22) and F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
Eleven down, two to go
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Novel Easter Eggs, part 2 – Human Parts Museum eggs (Video Blog Ep 008)
Easter Eggs, you know, those hidden references in movies, books, websites, and more that aren’t necessary but are damn fun in a treasure hunt sort of way. I planted a few (13 to be exact) in my newest novel, I Didn’t Mean to be Kevin. In this, part 2, I reveal references to T.C. Boyle, Steve Aylett, Craig Clevenger, Brian Evenson, Will Christopher Baer, Octavio Paz, and Flannery O’Connor.
Seven down, four to go.
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Novel Easter Eggs, part 1 – Metafiction eggs (Video Blog Ep 007)
Easter Eggs, you know, those hidden references in movies, books, websites, and more that aren’t necessary but are damn fun in a treasure hunt sort of way. I planted a few (13 to be exact) in my newest novel, I Didn’t Mean to be Kevin, not on the assumption that some reader would be thrilled by a find in one of my books, but because the concept actually worked well with the theme of the novel. The theme being that people need validation. Jackson, the narrator, validates himself as a person by telling crazy stories to strangers. I, as an author, validate myself by telling you about all the cool books I’ve read.
Two down, eleven to go.
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Three books that break the rules yet still succeed (Video Blog Ep 006)
Rules are important, especially rules that govern how to write effective prose. But, in the hands of masters, those rules can be broken to great effect. I this, this newest episode of The World’s First Author Video Blog, I examine how three well-known books–Brett Easton Ellis’ American Psycho, Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, and Jose Saramago’s Blindness–break basic writing rules, but do so successfully.
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Caleb finds a few easily perverted book covers on his bookshelf (Video Blog Ep 005)
With the right (wrong?) amount of perversion, innocuous book covers can reveal their dirty truths. Here I look at four such covers, extracting from them the perverted undertones. Publishers should be ashamed.
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