villains
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No One Can Be Saved: A Conversation with Amanda Goldblatt
Amanda Goldblatt discusses her debut novel, HARD MOUTH.
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Look at How the Bullets Have Missed
I praise everyone I can still touch, their warmth a violent protest against the cold weapons of death.
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How to Survive as a Villain in Literature
On NPR’s All Things Considered, Petra Mayer offers advice to those who she describes as the “unpunished” villains of literature (O’Brien from Orwell’s 1984, X-Men’s Magneto, Milton’s Satan): win over the audience with your cause and relatable personal faults, and you’ll…
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The Invention of Eastern Europe
Harry Merritt writes for The Awl on the history of Eastern Europe as the traditional home of villainy, particularly in comic books and their cinematic universes.
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Happy Easter, everybody! A slideshow of writerly villains in film. (via) “Why Twitter is Gertrude Stein.” (via) I know it’s not hip right now, but I love me some “neuronovels.” Maybe this is why. (via Jessa Crispin at Bookslut, who…
