Subscribe to SLJ
Follow This Blog: RSS feed
Connect the Pop
Inside Connect the Pop

‘Super Pop!’ and Making (Extremely Fun) Connections Across Media

Super Pop

Quick, what do these have in common… the ‘dingy basements’ in ‘Fight Club’ (the film), the video game Flower, a couple of novels by Harumi Murakami and E.L. Konigsburg, the bathroom in HBO’s ‘Girls,’ Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’s ‘Empire State of Mind,’ and Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’?

BEA, Famous Authors, and Why We’re All Guilty of Promoting ‘Celebrity Culture’

BEA - opening day 2013

I guess there was some cosplay going on, but most participating attendees chose to dress up as publishing executives for some reason.

Doctor Who… Librarian?

DoctorWho_S7Pt2_BLU

… the gateway to countless worlds of pure fancy intentionally looks pedestrian—one has to transcend the importance of “surface” to be rewarded with the riches that lie beneath.

Book Giveaway: Informational Text Par Excellence… ‘American Comic Book Chronicles’

ACB-1980s

So does this sound like something that could get the teen and tween comics fans you know into nonfiction? Sure it does.

Why At First I Didn’t Think I Could Write About ‘Citizen Hearst’

CH_DVD_FT

So why am I so on the fence about recommending this well-produced and often engaging film?

A Must-See Movie for Book Lovers Now on DVD

Steidl - Grass

On top of everything else that they do, libraries with collections of thoughtfully published art books are also, essentially, museums.

In Memory of ‘Script Frenzy': Some Free Resources for Writing for Media

The great Rod Serling dictating a script, 1959.

An array of free resources related to writing and producing media… to use yourself, or make available to others.
http://blogs.slj.com/connect-the-pop/category/print-media/page/2/
blogs.slj.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2017-47
47949
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:L5L3WYWL7XLFG7RARIGFERWZ3MYZ737L
<urn:uuid:0c3de12b-7972-452f-b4fd-cd66a4a17786>
2017-11-24T22:26:12Z
64.207.177.145
application/xhtml+xml
sha1:VLW4V6GPBM4BBC4MFO37PBXPMQRKI37P
<urn:uuid:b0e1e784-a5ff-40c7-8367-8b9523fe7c35>
http://blogs.slj.com/connect-the-pop/category/print-media/page/2/
length
response
<urn:uuid:4b5d9129-0a0e-4ac0-82d2-e18cd2136d11>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-185-64-146.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-47
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for November 2017
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf