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The German Book Prize does it again and other literary news from Germany

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Cora

The German Book Prize 2013 has been awarded to Hungarian-German writer Terészia Mora for her novel Das Ungeheuer (The Monster). Spiegel Online, Tagesspiegel and the Süddeutsche Zeitung have more. Finally, here is a video interview with Ms. Mora about her … Continue reading →

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Fredric Wertham – not so innocent, but actually a fraud

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Cora

Research fraud, it’s not just for German politicians anymore. A new study reveals that Dr. Fredric Wertham, the man responsible for the creation of the Comics Code Authority and reviled among comic fans with a fervour usually only reserved for … Continue reading →

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October Linkdump

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Cora

At Tor.com, Liz Bourke has a great rebuttal directed towards certain authors of historical fiction and historically flavoured fantasy, who excuse their lack of significant female and GLBT characters as well as characters of colour with “Well, that’s the way … Continue reading →

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An Anti-Censorship Post

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Cora

I have no post for you here today, but I wanted to point you to my latest post about the corporate censorship of erotica over at the Pegasus Pulp blog.

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The Enterprise versus the Space Nazis – 40 years late

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Cora

More than forty years after it originally aired in 1968, the Star Trek episode Patterns of Force a.k.a. the Space Nazi episode, has finally been broadcast on German TV this weekend.

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Nihilism in YA Fiction

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Cora

After the “nihilism in fantasy” discussion a few months ago, we now seem to be having the “nihilism in YA” discussion, kicked off by this article in the Wall Street Journal in which the paper’s YA reviewer complains about YA … Continue reading →

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