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Kate Beaton's twisted take on the world — with more butts

Bizarre history
I see the world in a different way after looking at a Kate Beaton strip. I think she's a genius.
By KELLY LINK | October 12, 2011

By | January 01, 0001

The Oracle Engine

Excerpted from the short story by M.T. Anderson
The lizard of the wasteland, so dazzling to the eye, so rapid to flee or to strike, may grow to its full maturity only in the most brutal of deserts, where no dew falls to drink and where the sun is unrelenting. So, some say, was Marcus Furius Medullinus Machinator, he who first invented the oracle engines...
By M.T. ANDERSON | July 20, 2011

By | January 01, 0001

Ghost writer

The haunted world of Kelly Link
Salted throughout Kelly Link’s stories, you’ll find Buffy , Bust , Doc Martens, IM-ing, Target, Google, Vicks VapoRub, a T-shirt that reads I’M SO GOTH I SHIT TINY VAMPIRES.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | October 02, 2008

Out of this world

Benjamin Rosenbaum’s The Ant King
The worlds Rosenbaum creates feel less like a separate or “alternate” reality and more like a colorful, if complicated, extension of the one we know.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | August 26, 2008

Choose your own adventure

Pencils, books, and peg legs? A new writing center is coming to town, and it’s calling your inner child.
This fall, Boston is slated to become the seventh chapter of the youth writing organization founded by Dave Eggers in 2002.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | March 15, 2007