Utilitarian Review 8/29/15

Roundtable Question

Toying with the idea of doing a roundtable on women directors. Would anyone be interested in participating in that (or even in reading it?)

Wonder Woman News

Brian Patton reviewed my book for the Journal of Comics and Grahpic Novels (partially paywalled.)

Kent Worcester reviews a number of books about Wonder Woman, including mine.
 
On HU

Featured Archive Post: Katherine Wirick on using OCD to sell make-up.

Robert Stanley Martin with on sale dates for comics in mid-1946.

Jared Hill hopes for the end of the Terminator franchise.

Nix 66 on acting as sex work and sex work as acting.

Me on Tarantino and genre pleasures (or the lack thereof.)

Me on Tarantino’s record on diversity.

Chris Gavaler on his daughter rocketing off from a doomed planet.
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Playboy I wrote about the Sad Puppies and the history of diverse sf.

At Quartz I wrote about

—how soaps are better than quality television.

Owen Wilson’s No Escape and treating Asians as a zombie horde.

At Splice Today I wrote about Bernie Sanders’ fundraising, which isn’t on part with Obama’s in 2007.

At Ravishly I wrote about how Hillary Clinton is not a dynastic candidate.
 
Other Links

Mallory Ortberg on crappy journalism about sex work.

The LA Times review of Ted Rall’s jaywalking story is pretty damning.

Katherine Cross on the Ashley Madison hack and the culture of shaming.

Interesting Playboy interview with Samuel L. Jackson.

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