Save the date: September 21st is the world premiere of Where the House Was, the documentary about the demolition of the Hugo House to make way for a large apartment building. It will be at Northwest Film Forum, easily the most literary movie theater in town, and tickets are on sale now.
The winners of the Hugo Awards (no relation to the Hugo House) were announced this weekend. One of the sci-fi community’s greatest honors, this year’s Hugo winners are all women. Predictably, some baby-men on the internet are whining about this, but let’s not give them any headspace, okay? Men have had a lock on literary awards for decades, so this isn’t even one-one-thousandth of what women writers have experienced.
Noted sex pest Mark Halperin is publishing one of his conventional-wisdom laden political books. Halperin has had to resort to Judith Regan, the woman who tried to be OJ Simpson’s publisher, to see his book released. Let’s ignore him too, okay?
Read Art Spiegelman’s essay that was rejected by Marvel ComicsR (or Marvel’s owner, Disney) for being too political. Considering that comics have always been political (and anti-fascist, to boot) this is extremely disappointing.