Los Angeles Had No Culture Of Its

Tradition - One Of Those Words Conservative People Use As A Shortcut To Thinking.

If Contemporary Literary Fiction Doesn't Read A Bit Like Science Fiction Then It's Probably Not All That Contemporary, Is It

Unless You Turn Out To Be A Shining And Ballistic Genius, Then, Trust Me, If You Want To Do This Then You're Going To Be Spending The Next Few Years Doing Little Else. This Is A Thing You Do At A Table With A Notebook And A Keyboard, And There's No Getting Away From It. Put In The Hours. You Don't Get To Turn Off 'being A Writer.'

Jim Rosato Was Recently Married, To A Greek Nurse. Rosato Was Half Irish And Half Italian, And There Was A Pool On At The 1st As To Which Of The Two Would Arrive At Work Wearing The Other's Skin As A Hat Within The Year.

The Book Is Almost Always Better Than The Movie. You Could Have No Better Case In Point Than From Hell, Alan Moore's Best Graphic Novel To Date, Brilliantly Illustrated By Eddie Campbell. It's Hard To Describe Just How Much Better The Book Is. It's Like, "if The Movie Was An Episode Of Battlestar Galactica With A Guest Appearance By The Smurfs And Everyone Spoke Dutch, The Graphic Novel Is Citizen Kane With Added Sex Scenes And Music By Your Favourite Ten Bands And Everyone In The World You Ever Hated Dies At The End." That's How Much Better It Is.