Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

Did you know the hills of Seattle used to be steeper than the hills of San Francisco? During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centur...

I’ve never seen the Netflix series Stranger Things , starring Winona Ryder. Apparently some of it takes place in a sinister lab in a forest...

Wait for the foie gras at the end. Last night, I dreamt I was on-scene for a website that simulates everyday background noise to help a...

How would you like one minute to summarize a novel you’ve worked on for over a year? I attended the annual Pacific Northwest Writers Confer...

Hey, everyone, I got to see Star Trek Beyond last night at a sneak preview showing, thanks to a friend of mine belonging to a large compan...

Do you see the title when you pick it up?   On Sunday, a friend I hadn’t seen for a few months asked me if I was reading anything inter...

I saw the shark movie The Shallows , but this won’t be an actual movie review. I’ll just say there was a lot of blood, so if you don’t like...

A lot of the creative talent for movies has gone into television in recent years, so I’ll start a new category of reviews: TV series. (If I...

Just stick that bookmark in the back of your throat and gag. (Book Purge IV somehow didn’t get posted, but Book Purge III is here .) These ...