by Jason Bovberg | Nov 28, 2020 | Journalism, Reviews
Jeremy Robert Johnson is part of the Chuck Palahniuk school of shock fiction. He’s been around for years, producing an almost underground brand of intriguing off-the-wall tales categorized as “bizarro.” The thrust of the dark genre is that nothing is off-limits, so...
by Jason Bovberg | Oct 21, 2020 | Publishing, Reviews
Canadian author Andrew Pyper burst onto the crime-fiction scene with his horrific whodunnit Lost Girls, about two teenaged girls killed in northern Ontario—and the supernatural history of the town in which they’re murdered. It was one of those debuts that makes you...
by Jason Bovberg | Jul 15, 2020 | Publishing, Reviews
Are you a fan of Spike Jonz’s Being John Malkovich? How about his film Adaptation? If so, you’re familiar with the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, the out-of-leftfield writer who seems to live inside his own head. His writing is always a trippy wander through a...
by Jason Bovberg | Jun 14, 2020 | Publishing, Reviews
Did you know that Mel Brooks’ son is responsible for some of the most foundational zombie books of the 21st century? Max Brooks’ The Zombie Survival Guide debuted in 2003 and ascended the charts until it attained international bestseller status, becoming a fixture on...
by Jason Bovberg | May 28, 2020 | Publishing, Reviews
William Gibson burst onto the sci-fi scene in 1984 with his groundbreaking paperback original Neuromancer, which provided the foundation for a whole new genre called cyberpunk (and which was influenced heavily by Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner). Gibson even coined the...
by Jason Bovberg | Apr 21, 2020 | Publishing, Reviews
I became aware of Australian writer Max Barry (at that time, spelled Maxx Barry) when he debuted with his first novel Syrup, which concerns a marketing graduate who comes up with a scintillating new idea for Coca-Cola but is beset by backstabbing challenges. It’s an...
