This latest trailer looks fabulous! In addition to all the essential tropes of great fantasy—swords and ponies! dragons and seers! queens and kings!—we now have an important and powerful character in a wheelchair.
Read moreAfter a recent post on Hild’s film/tv rights, I started a conversation in the comments with my friend Brooks, posting as Myseyeball….
Read moreThe first part of my PBS interview on Well Read just went up on the web. Sadly the usual embed code doesn’t seem…
Read moreI’ve been zoning out and watching more Olympics. (Hey, my post-operative instructions say I’m ‘required to rest.’ What’s your excuse?) And I’m…
Read moreNot much that’s new, but some tantalising glimpses of luscious scenery. And in just over a week, we’ll see the beginning of…
Read moreSo how come I didn’t know about Full Metal Jousting?? I’m guessing it’s the perfect accompaniment to prednisone. Take a look at…
Read moreIt started snowing in earnest first thing Tuesday morning: It stopped yesterday, but everything stayed frozen. Today it’s a little warmer, but…
Read moreSnow is coming down. It will come down all day. Tomorrow there will be a lot more. I won’t be able to…
Read moreI’ve said before how Hild was originally intended to be a single novel. In the writing, that all changed. Yesterday I saw…
Read moreI’ve been taking a couple of days off. I’ve discovered that doing nothing is a skill I’ll have to relearn. I’m finding…
Read moreAccording to The Advocate, David Cameron, the leader of the UK’s coalition government, wants to ban same-same kissing on TV until after…
Read moreIt’s good. I enjoyed it. And it took me a while to work out that I’m a little disappointed: I was hoping…
Read moreI’ve been waiting to be in a calm, reasonable, orderly frame of mind before writing about Camelot, the new epic mini series…
Read moreWe got our new AV set up running at last. The nifty new TiVo Premiere that allows for streaming from Netflix, YouTube,…
Read moreToday will be wrestle-with-televisual-technology day at the Griffith-Eskridge household. We got our first TiVo in 1999. We were the only people we…
Read moreLast night I watched the preview of Game of Thrones. The showrunners, D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, made a couple of interesting…
Read moreOooh, Dr Who Season 6 (or maybe Season 32 is you’re an old-timer like me) is coming… http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/external/player.swf Starts April 23. Not…
Read moreI’ve just watched the first episode of Starz’s Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Oh, dear. The blood was candy-red, and flung over everything….
Read moreLast night, I watched the first episode of Kindred. I hadn’t seen it since it first aired in 1996, just a couple…
Read moreAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO has just greenlit a full ten-episode series based on George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones. All…
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Nicola Griffith