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Processing: Mattie Lubchansky Wrote and Illustrated Simplicity

Author photo by Sylvie Rosokoff On a semi-regular basis, I interview authors about their writing processes and the craft behind their books. You can find previous entries here. This week, I’m excited to share an interview with the author and illustrator Mattie Lubchansky, whose new gorgeous new graphic novel Simplicity is out today! Like Lubchasnky’s previous book, Boy’s Weekend—and her regular comic strips—Simplicity combines lush illustrations and science fiction settings to examine very real

The Bad Batch Returns In a New ‘Star Wars’ Novel

It’s been over a year since Star Wars: The Bad Batch ended, but it was a given Clone Force 99 would eventually live on beyond the screen. Next month, we’ll check back in with the team in their first novel, Sanctuary. Written by Lamar Giles (Ruin Road), the tale takes place towards the end of season two after the episode “Pabu.” Now that they’re working with pirate hunter Phee, the Clones—Hunter, Omega, Wrecker, and Tech—are on resource gathering duty after the planet’s recent tsunami. That lead

Fanfic study challenges leading cultural evolution theory

It's widely accepted conventional wisdom that when it comes to creative works—TV shows, films, music, books—consumers crave an optimal balance between novelty and familiarity. What we choose to consume and share with others, in turn, drives cultural evolution. But what if that conventional wisdom is wrong? An analysis based on data from a massive online fan fiction (fanfic) archive contradicts this so-called "balance theory," according to a paper published in the journal Humanities and Social S

Glen Powell plays a dangerous game in The Running Man trailer

Edgar Wright hews close to Stephen King's novel in his adaptation of The Running Man. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Stephen King published several novels under the pseudonym Richard Bachman before being outed in 1984. One of those was The Running Man, later adapted into a star vehicle for Arnold Schwarzenegger. There's a new adaptation on the horizon courtesy of director Edgar Wright (Sean of the Dead, Ant-Man, Baby Driver, Last Night in Soho), and Paramount just dropped the trailer for Th

Project Hail Mary trailer looks like a winner for Andy Weir fans

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller co-direct Project Hail Mary, based on Andy Weir's 2021 novel. We here at Ars were big fans of 2015's The Martian, adapted from Andy Weir's novel of the same name. So our interest was naturally piqued when he heard about a new film, Project Hail Mary, based on Weir's bestselling 2021 novel. Amazon MGM Studios just released the first trailer, and the movie looks great—very much in the vein of The Martian. (Some spoilers below, but nothing that isn't in the traile

Siddhartha

1922 novel by Hermann Hesse Siddhartha: An Indian novel (German: Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung; German: [ziˈdaʁta] ⓘ) is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple, lyrical style. It was published in the United States in 1951 by New Directions Publishing and became influential during the 1960s. Hesse dedicated the firs