I <3 Lev Grossman. In an interview by Zack Smith for Newsarama, he said, of his new book The Magicians, I’m only putting in formally-published form the oldest, most basic tropes of fan fiction.
In Rolling Stone, Rob Sheffield called the album Them Crooked Vultures fan fiction with a classic-rock heart.
On New York Magazine's Vulture blog, Nick Catucci referred to a recent episode of 30 Rock as pure fan fiction, minus the part where he tells her to take off everything but her glasses.
On Examiner, Anthony Strain wrote that a plot element of the 11/09 episode of Gossip Girl has totally been done before, if you count certain kinds of fan fiction.
The (Lewis County, Washington) Chronicle's Carrina Stanton reviewed a Centralia College production of Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, a [Peanuts] fan fiction by Bert V. Royal.
Neely Tucker's piece on recent pro fanfic continues to bounce around the world.
In Twilight news: Robert Pattinson told The Times's Lesley white that "Twilight fan fiction is amazing: I’ve been sent whole novels featuring me as myself, in the Twilight world, with Edward in it as well." And, in the Louisiana State University Tiger Weekly, Colleen McKinney ended a piece about grad student John Edgar Browning's study of how Dracula has been depicted our culture with So, for all you Twi-hards and self-proclaimed fangbangers out there, this might be a great addition for your bookshelf. If you have room between your Edward Cullen fan fiction, of course.
Finally, in the Weekly World News, Reginald Cunningham III reported that Joseph Cao, the only Republican to vote for the health care bill, in a particularly embarrassing incident […] accidentally distributed to Congress a copy of his Twilight fan fiction.
In Rolling Stone, Rob Sheffield called the album Them Crooked Vultures fan fiction with a classic-rock heart.
On New York Magazine's Vulture blog, Nick Catucci referred to a recent episode of 30 Rock as pure fan fiction, minus the part where he tells her to take off everything but her glasses.
On Examiner, Anthony Strain wrote that a plot element of the 11/09 episode of Gossip Girl has totally been done before, if you count certain kinds of fan fiction.
The (Lewis County, Washington) Chronicle's Carrina Stanton reviewed a Centralia College production of Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, a [Peanuts] fan fiction by Bert V. Royal.
Neely Tucker's piece on recent pro fanfic continues to bounce around the world.
In Twilight news: Robert Pattinson told The Times's Lesley white that "Twilight fan fiction is amazing: I’ve been sent whole novels featuring me as myself, in the Twilight world, with Edward in it as well." And, in the Louisiana State University Tiger Weekly, Colleen McKinney ended a piece about grad student John Edgar Browning's study of how Dracula has been depicted our culture with So, for all you Twi-hards and self-proclaimed fangbangers out there, this might be a great addition for your bookshelf. If you have room between your Edward Cullen fan fiction, of course.
Finally, in the Weekly World News, Reginald Cunningham III reported that Joseph Cao, the only Republican to vote for the health care bill, in a particularly embarrassing incident […] accidentally distributed to Congress a copy of his Twilight fan fiction.
(Damn it, I'd have loved to be able to link about a Congress man accidentally spamming everyone with his Twilight fic. *laughs*)