ObservancesStar Wars opened in 1977 and changed movies forever, and I was there on opening day, in a line that wrapped around the block. On May the Fourth, a look back at the film that taught a generation about myth.
ObservancesMary Shelley wrote Frankenstein at 18 and published it in 1818, often called the first real science fiction. The deepest thing about it: the monster was never the villain. A look at sympathy, creation, and responsibility.
ObservancesDune: Part Three lands December 18, 2026, adapting Dune Messiah and closing Villeneuve's trilogy. A ranking of every Dune adaptation, and a look at what makes Herbert's monumental source so hard to film.
ObservancesIn 1954, Kirk Douglas brought Homer's wandering hero to the big screen, putting the Odyssey in front of a mass audience. A look at one of the oldest stories ever told and why it has survived for millennia.
ObservancesSherlockians mark January 6 as Holmes' birthday, though Conan Doyle never set one. The detective of four novels and 56 stories became the most famous in history. A look at Holmes and the case for real detection.
ObservancesFrank Herbert's Dune was rejected by 20+ publishers before an auto-repair-manual company printed it. On his birthday, a look at the worldbuilding that makes Dune the genre's gold standard, and what it teaches anyone building a universe.
ObservancesWorld Photography Day marks the 1839 gift of the daguerreotype to the world. With 980,000 pictures and counting, a photographer-writer reflects on what the camera's eye brings to the page.
ObservancesNational Camera Day honors the machine itself, from a 50-pound box of plates and chemicals to the device in your pocket. A look at how the camera changed the way I see, and how that seeing feeds my writing.
ObservancesNational Comic Book Day celebrates the medium that taught a lot of us to love stories. I owned early Iron Man and Spider-Man issues, lost them all, and once trashed boxes of comics, and learned from all of it.
ObservancesNational Reading Month is a time to celebrate reading for its own sake. So here's an honest confession from a writer: the handful of books I have read forty times, and what makes a book worth returning to.
ObservancesPoe invented the modern detective story and helped build modern horror, and wrote the poems every American kid gets assigned. I'm living proof that school can't kill a great writer, even when it tries.
ObservancesDickens gave us A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, and the word Dickensian. I was forced to read him in school and hated it, and yet I watch every adaptation. A look at the gap between assigned reading and real love.
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