Tag: conventions

Personal Interlude: “A Date With Density”

Modest Proposals On Dragging Literary Conventions Out of the 20th Century, Part 3 (Remember how, in the days of standard episodic television before streaming and binging, many dramas and some comedies would give a thumbnail update starting with “Previously on…”, flashing scenes so fast that people starting midway through a season or story were more confused than before? Well, that’s what this newsletter is like. Look at these as regular…

Personal Interlude: “Spicing The Variety of Life”

Modest Proposals For Dragging Literary Conventions Out Of the Twentieth Century, Part 2 (Remember how, in the days of standard episodic television before streaming and binging, many dramas and some comedies would give a thumbnail update starting with “Previously on…”, flashing scenes so fast that people starting midway through a season or story were more confused than before? Well, that’s what this newsletter is like. Look at these as regular…

Personal Interlude: “All the Conventions Fit To Eat”

A path to the future, or a descent to the depths?

Modest Proposals On Dragging Literary Conventions Out of the 20th Century, Part 1 (Remember how, in the days of standard episodic television before streaming and binging, many dramas and some comedies would give a thumbnail update starting with “Previously on…”, flashing scenes so fast that people starting midway through a season or story were more confused than before? Well, that’s what this newsletter is like. Look at these as regular…

Personal Interlude: "The Hero We Need and the Hero We Deserve"

A modest proposal for alternative Saturday night entertainment at literary science fiction conventions (Remember how, in the days of standard episodic television before streaming and binging, many dramas and some comedies would give a thumbnail update starting with “Previously on…”, flashing scenes so fast that people starting midway through a season or story were more confused than before? Well, that’s what this newsletter is like. Look at these as regular…