graphic novels New graphic novel adaptation of "The Road" Thom Dunn

books Cormac McCarthy dead at 89 Grant St. Clair

star wars Already regretting hiring Cormac McCarthy to revise the script for Star Wars Ep. IX Rob Beschizza

tech Department of Homeland Security to use robot dogs in raids Rob Beschizza

gadgets MicroJournal: a distraction-free writing device with knobs Rob Beschizza

Tom The Dancing Bug A brand new, epic Tom the Dancing Bug book is out! Tom the Dancing Bug: Eat the Poor! Boing Boing

writing See how stories look when you get rid of all the words but leave the punctuation Thom Dunn

gadgets Hark! The perfect mechanical keyboard Rob Beschizza

Boing Boing Gadgets Boston Dynamics robot dog enforces lockdown in Singapore Rob Beschizza

science fiction Max Barry on how science fiction prepares us for the apocalypse Mark Frauenfelder

Science Cormac McCarthy on how to write a scientific (or any kind of) paper David Pescovitz

AI OpenAI releases larger GPT-2 dataset. Can it write fake news better than a human? Rob Beschizza

Games Already regretting assigning Bret Easton Ellis to review Minecraft's photorealistic texture pack Rob Beschizza

boston dynamics Already regretting assigning Cormac McCarthy to report on the video of an entire pack of Boston Dynamics robot dogs Rob Beschizza

politics A list of Steve King's worst remarks: Racist, shocking, and just plain stupid Xeni Jardin

Keyboard with only the letters of the alphabet and a space bar Rob Beschizza

novels What different novels look like with everything removed but punctuation Mark Frauenfelder

essays Lost and Found: Why Novelists Are Always Searching Rory Flynn