Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for March 7, 2014.
How I Wrote It: Willy Vlautin, on "The Free"
2:19 PM PST, March 7, 2014
The characters in Willy Vlautin's quietly brilliant new novel, The Free, embody the embattled middle class: they're wounded (physically, emotionally, financially), they're just getting by, they're hardworking.
Of course, the title is comentary in itself. None of them is free. Not the night-shift worker at the veteran's home, who's lost his home and family; not …
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Graphic Novel Friday: Hidden Gems with Cliff Chiang
7:00 AM PST, March 7, 2014
Once I saw that artist Cliff Chiang was the latest subject of TwoMorrows Publishing’s Modern Masters series, it did not take me long to geek out. Now on its 29th installment, Modern Masters is a line of oversized books (usually topping 100 pages) that spotlights iconic artists working in the field of comics. In an original long-form interview, they chronicle an artist’s career, …
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