News and announcements about Soon I Will Be Invincible. Which is a book for people who think supervillains are kind of interesting and also want to read something smart and basically literate.
I was wondering, have you read David J. Schwartz's 'Superpowers', or Perry Moore's 'Hero'? If so, what do you think of them?
Oh, and do you know of any scholarly criticism/analysis of your novel? I'm trying to do a writer's journal for my creative writing Ph.D. (the main creative element I've written is a novel with a masked hero in it) and I'm struggling to find much on comic book/superhero fiction.
Superhero fiction has certainly been tagged as a trend, but I'm not aware of any substantive criticism. I've heard of a few professors flirting with putting 'Invincible' on syllabi, but don't know any details.
I tend to stay away from other superhero fiction as a rule - I have my own ideas & goals associated with putting superheroes into prose, and it mixes me up a little to spend time on other people's versions. The exception would be Jonathan Lethem's Fortress of Solitude.
As for regular-comics criticism, I think Douglas Wolk's Reading Comics is unequalled. It came out last year from Da Capo.
Thanks for the reply. I think that there's some bits and pieces to do with Chabon and Lethem, but not much else. I guess I'm just going to have to stick my neck out do something about that!
I know what you mean when it comes to other people's fiction - do you find it a problem trying to do a Ph.D. and write at the same time? I recently read Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road' whilst finishing the second draft of my novel. I found myself re-writing in this strange, Hemingway-esque dry narrative - which is quite different from the overall style. Do you find it an issue mixing reading with writing? (That question sounds so dumb now I've written it!)
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I was wondering, have you read David J. Schwartz's 'Superpowers', or Perry Moore's 'Hero'? If so, what do you think of them?
Oh, and do you know of any scholarly criticism/analysis of your novel? I'm trying to do a writer's journal for my creative writing Ph.D. (the main creative element I've written is a novel with a masked hero in it) and I'm struggling to find much on comic book/superhero fiction.
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Dan Connell
Superhero fiction has certainly been tagged as a trend, but I'm not aware of any substantive criticism. I've heard of a few professors flirting with putting 'Invincible' on syllabi, but don't know any details.
I tend to stay away from other superhero fiction as a rule - I have my own ideas & goals associated with putting superheroes into prose, and it mixes me up a little to spend time on other people's versions. The exception would be Jonathan Lethem's Fortress of Solitude.
As for regular-comics criticism, I think Douglas Wolk's Reading Comics is unequalled. It came out last year from Da Capo.
Austin,
Thanks for the reply. I think that there's some bits and pieces to do with Chabon and Lethem, but not much else. I guess I'm just going to have to stick my neck out do something about that!
I know what you mean when it comes to other people's fiction - do you find it a problem trying to do a Ph.D. and write at the same time? I recently read Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road' whilst finishing the second draft of my novel. I found myself re-writing in this strange, Hemingway-esque dry narrative - which is quite different from the overall style. Do you find it an issue mixing reading with writing? (That question sounds so dumb now I've written it!)
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