Author spotlight! Jason Heller, author of Strange Stars, worked with Englewood Public Library in Colorado to create a free two day Writer’s Retreat. The purpose of the retreat is to… Read more »

Books take us on adventures. Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded by Jason Heller is a book for music lovers, sci-fi connoisseurs, pop culture hawks, and adventure seekers.… Read more »

When my book Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded was about to come out earlier this year, I had plenty of discussions with Melville House’s… Read more »

Some books are just candy. It takes all kinds of books to make the world go round: discursuses on badassery, histories of world-shaping forces, modernist fever-dreams, far-out beardy shit. Sometimes a book comes… Read more »

If the utter madness of the past week tells us anything, it’s that we need a change, pronto. Faced with a total, Trumpian failure of imagination, we must think about other… Read more »

When David Bowie died suddenly on January 10, 2016, so did a part of me. That day, I had already spent forty-eight hours pondering Blackstar, Bowie’s final album, which had… Read more »

In the 1960s and 70s, old mores and lingering repressions were making way for new freedoms, as sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll became the rallying cry for a new generation.… Read more »

Good news! Whatever you’ve been waiting ’til Tuesday to do? You can do it today. For today, internetizens, is Tuesday. Here are a couple of excellent things, in case you… Read more »

In my upcoming book Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded, I of course talk a lot about David Bowie. But I cover tons of other sci-fi-influenced… Read more »

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, subway stations are best avoided. So it’s incredibly bizarre that, for the next month, there is one subway station you should actually pay money to see:… Read more »