Literary (Page 2)
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V.E. Schwab on a literary trope she wishes she could stop
Fragile Threads of Power author V.E. Schwab criticizes authors for continuing to deny queer characters happy endings
December 18, 2023
Jim McDermott
Features
V.E. Schwab wishes Buffy the Vampire Slayer had more diverse queer representation
Bestselling fantasy author V.E. Schwab talks why it’s so important to have a wide variety of queer characters in pop culture
December 18, 2023
Jim McDermott
Features
Rachel Smythe, Raina Telgemeier, and Kazu Kibuishi talk continuity in series writing
Three acclaimed graphic novelists discuss the challenges of creating long stories
December 12, 2023
Jim McDermott
News
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Getting Camp Half-Blood t-shirts right required trying 20 shades of orange
The costume department had to dye 350 shirts, 19 at a time.
December 07, 2023
Avery Kaplan
Features
Get started on The Sandman comics with this magical Black Friday deal
It's hard to fall asleep while reading this one.
November 24, 2023
Fran Ruiz
Features
Get all the Twilight Saga books without sucking your wallet dry in the Black Friday Sale
Either edition will satisfy even the most die-hard Twilight fan in your life.
November 24, 2023
Trent Cannon
Features
Disability isn't evil: Why Doctor Who is changing one of its most iconic villains, Davros
The classic Whovian villain appeared, sans wheelchair, in a Children in Need sketch also featuring David Tennant's Fourteenth Doctor
November 22, 2023
Grant DeArmitt
Features
How to read Goosebumps in order
Here's how to read all of the original Goosebumps series in order.
November 20, 2023
Avery Kaplan
Features
Poll: What is your favorite Hunger Games book?
Vote in our fan poll, and let us know!
November 17, 2023
Tiffany Babb
Features
The Hunger Games: Every district of Panem explained
Explore Panem ahaed of The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
November 16, 2023
Ashley V. Robinson
Features
What to watch after Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher
If you've finished Mike Flanagan's latest horror miniseries but need some more Edgar Allan Poe in your life, we've got you covered
November 15, 2023
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Cassandra Clare in Conversation: Watch the Sword Catcher author talk to a crowd of fans at MCM in London
Also the mind behind The Mortal Instruments, Clare spoke the magic she's created, both in her worlds and ours
November 15, 2023
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Five Nights at Freddy's: Take an exclusive look at the first chapter of the FNAF movie novelization
Can't wait until December to check out the Five Nights at Freddy's official movie novel? We've got you covered.
November 14, 2023
Tiffany Babb
Features
Audible's Moriarty podcast understands what makes Arthur Conan Doyle's arch-villain survive
Season Two, The Silent Order, continues a 130-year cultural obsession with Sherlock Holmes's nemesis. But why does he continue to fascinate?
November 14, 2023
Grant DeArmitt
Features
David Tennant insists on calling The Scottish play by name, defying 400 years of theater tradition
While talking about his next theatrical role as the lead in Shakespeare's Scottish Play, David Tennant scoffed at the idea of it being cursed to call it by name.
November 10, 2023
Jim McDermott
News
Critical Role is doing even more Bells Hells - with a prequel!
Critical Role returns to print with Bells Hells: What Doesn't Break
November 09, 2023
Tiffany Babb
News
Jane Austen fans will fall in love with these new Puffin In Bloom covers
These beautiful new covers are illustrated by Rifle Paper Co.'s Anna Bond
November 08, 2023
Tiffany Babb
Features
How did Taylor Swift influence The Fourth Wing? Rebecca Yarros tells us all about it
With the second book in the Empyrean saga, Iron Flame, out in stores now, Yarros talks to Popverse about her musical inspirations
November 08, 2023
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Watch Footsteps director Janine Pipe and executive producer Neil Marshall in conversation at MCM
Frequent collaborators Pipe and Marshall spoke about the making of the werewolf short, and we caught it on camera
November 02, 2023
Grant DeArmitt
News
Did you want a different Game of Thrones ending? So did Cersei actor Lena Headey for her character and Arya
One that involved less falling bricks.
October 30, 2023
Fran Ruiz
Features
My night of romance at NYCC
Ali Hazelwood's panel on pop culture and romance turned into something so much more
October 23, 2023
Jim McDermott
Features
The Simpsons: After last Halloween, the bar for this year's Treehouse of Horror is high
Treehouse of Horror XXXIV, which will air on Fox November 5, needs to be great to top 2022's Death Tome or Not It
October 20, 2023
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Yes, we filmed the McElroy family's NYCC 2023 panels!
Be there from anywhere with Popverse's convention panel livestreams.
October 19, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
Christopher Paolini teases many more books to come in the Eragonverse
At NYCC Christopher Paolini says new book Murtaugh is “the beginning” of a whole new series of Eragon books
October 18, 2023
Jim McDermott
News
Martin Scorsese-produced crime thriller enlists Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, and Gerard Butler
Three big stars who are familiar with bloody action sign on for a new movie produced by the iconic filmmaker
October 17, 2023
Fran Ruiz
Features
Mark Hamill is the terrifying breakout from Fall of the House of Usher
Playing family enforcer Arthur Pym in Fall of the House of Usher, Mark Hamill is a transfixing menace
October 13, 2023
Jim McDermott
Features
Netflix's Fall of the House of Usher: All the major Edgar Allan Poe references you might have missed
We'll take you through the places, people, and poems that Mike Flanagan & Co have worked into the latest Netflix horror series. Be warned, spoilers ahead
October 12, 2023
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Bill Watterson calls collaboration with The Mysteries' artist John Kascht “appallingly inefficient and wasteful”
Bill Watterson and John Kascht wrestled with radically different ideas and art styles in creating their new book The Mysteries.
October 12, 2023
Jim McDermott
Features
Dr. Seuss' world expands to comics with a brand-new line at Random House Graphic
Random House Graphic and Dr. Seuss Enterprises are teaming up for a brand-new Dr. Seuss graphic novel line
October 10, 2023
Tiffany Babb
Features
Banned Book Spotlight: The Magic Fish shows how people communicate when they feel like they can’t
Trung Le Nguyen's The Magic Fish weaves fairy tales into a story about a young man struggling to come out to his parents
October 06, 2023
Tiffany Babb
Features
Banned Books Week: Four ways to take action against book bans
Want to get your voice heard about the rising wave of book bans in the United States? Here are four easy ways.
October 04, 2023
Tiffany Babb
Features
Neil Gaiman is back to work on Good Omens 3
Recently, the Good Omens co-author took to Tumblr to answer questions about the status of the third chapter of Prime Video's adaptation
September 27, 2023
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Free!Watch the full Leigh Bardugo and Dani Pendergast panel from at NYCC 2022 for free!
Demon in the Wood takes the stage at the Javits Center as author Leigh Bardugo and Dani Pendergast take fan questions.
September 14, 2023
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Romance author Chuck Tingle on how his audience "saved" him
"I just want to say, from the bottom of my heart, before I get too dang emotional: you have all saved my life.”
September 12, 2023
Greg Silber
Features
Neil Gaiman almost prevented Terry Pratchett’s unfinished work from being steamrolled (almost)
Pratchett’s biographer Rob Wilkins shared this strange story of carrying out Terry Pratchett's wishes with fans at MCM 2022
August 28, 2023
Avery Kaplan
Features
Good Omens season 2: What Aziraphale's plight says about religion and goodness
Good Omens season 2 tempts the audience to question what they've been taught
August 15, 2023
Jim McDermott
Features
A new Meg book takes everything you love about the Meg movies, and gives you more
The Meg creator Steve Alten explained about the new boxset on Enter the Popverse
August 10, 2023
Graeme McMillan
Features
The Meg creator Steve Alten boards a shark-themed Enter the Popverse
Prose novelist and The Meg creator Steve Alten comes to talk about the franchise ahead of The Meg 2: The Trench
August 07, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
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August 04, 2023
Chris Arrant
News
Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage are coming to prose starting in 2024, thanks to Marvel Crime
The new line comes from Marvel and Disney sibling, Hyperion Avenue
August 01, 2023
Graeme McMillan
Features
If you like Indiana Jones, you'll love these recommended comics, movies, and TV shows
Before, after, or during your Indiana Jones lovefest, here are some other movies, TV, shows and comics you'll enjoy
July 31, 2023
Leon Miller
News
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, American Booksellers Association, and more sue over new Texas rating law
“The Reader Act” is set to require booksellers to rate book based on “current community standards of decency”
July 28, 2023
Tiffany Babb
News
Get ready, the 2024 San Diego Comic-Con dates have been confirmed (and its a busy weekend)
What are you doing in late July 2024, anyway? We're doing Comic-Con International: San Diego
July 24, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
MCM Comic Con: Watch Our Flag Means Death, Star Trek, Yu-Gi-Oh, and other panels from the London May 2023 event!
Our Flag Mean Death and the stars of Witcher, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and more are here at MCM Comic Con
July 24, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
SDCC 2023: What to expect at San Diego Comic-Con this year
Everything you need to know about this year's San Diego Comic-Con
July 14, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
The Witcher returns to it season 1 form (and the novels) with the bewitching 'Act of Illusion' episode
In "The Act of Illusion," The Witcher returns to the playful, complex narrative style of the first season and also celebrates the storytelling of the novels
July 07, 2023
Jim McDermott
News
A Game of Thrones con has been canceled due to Florida's latest laws
Westeros ain't got nothing on Florida, according to the organizers of a major Game of Thrones convention
July 07, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
Andrzej SapkowskiThe Witcher reading order: How to read Andrzej Sapkowski's books in chronological and release order
There are Three Different Ways to Read the Witcher—Chronologically, Original print order and by U.S. release order.
July 03, 2023
Jim McDermott
News
Miami! Get ready for the next Florida Supercon, as we have the 2024 FSC dates
Florida Supercon is heading back to Miami next July. Here are the deets.
June 29, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
MCM Birmingham returns in winter 2023 - Here's the dates for the UK show!
MCM is returning to Birmingham, England this winter - but with later dates than you might expect.
June 16, 2023
Chris Arrant
News
One of America's greatest novelists, Cormac McCarthy, has died at age 89
Cormac McCarthy may be dead, but his stories are too tough to die.
June 13, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
Popverse: Year One - our most popular articles, as decided by YOU!
From controversy in comics to cartoons that make you say 'Woooo!', Popverse's first year was great. Here are the most popular news, panels, features, and guides from year one.
May 30, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
Pokemon, Heartstopper's Rhea Norwood, Witcher's Eamon Farren, or The Boogeyman: Which May MCM Comic Con panel did fans choose to watch first
Which May 2023 MCM Comic Con panel do you want to watch here first?
May 26, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
Dog Man is the perfect introduction to comics, especially Grant Morrison's
Could Dav Pilkey's wildly successful book series be even more meta than Morrison?
May 23, 2023
Graeme McMillan
News
Popverse: Year One - the big surprises, the big successes, and the big deals you should know about
It's the first birthday of our tour guide to pop culture, Popverse
May 18, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
Game of Thrones: Everything we know (so far) about The Winds of Winter
There's a lot we don't know about The Winds of Winter, but here's everything we do know.
May 17, 2023
Danielle Baranda
News
We've just made it easier for you to keep up with your favourite things
Spend less time searching for the things you love, and more time reading about them.
May 09, 2023
Craig Munro
News
Bay Area comic convention SiliCon cancels this year's event due to "financial hardship"
Reports indicate one of SiliCon's major financial backers pulled out of this year's event
May 06, 2023
Chris Arrant
News
Los Angeles Comic Con boasts it beat all its area competitors to be the biggest in the LA area
Los Angeles Comic Con says it just bested others as the biggest LA-area comic convention around
May 05, 2023
Chris Arrant
News
ReedPop VP (and Popverse co-founder) Mike Armstrong is exiting the company after nearly 14 years
After nearly 14 years, ReedPop's Mike Armstrong is leaving the company
May 04, 2023
Chris Arrant
News
Fan Expo St. Louis quietly canceled after nine-year run
As Fan Expo St. Louis closes its doors, St. Louis loses its annual comic convention
April 19, 2023
Chris Arrant
News
Comic con on a cruise ship? It's coming in 2024
Comic convention + cruise ship? Imagine it all, especially the cosplay with Comic Con Cruise
April 13, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
Thrawn: Everything you need to know about the Star Wars Grand Admiral and upcoming villain of Ahsoka
Grand Admiral Thrawn makes his live action debut in the upcoming Ahsoka series on Disney +, but it's hardly his first Star Wars.
April 08, 2023
Grant DeArmitt
News
Brazil's CCXP announces 2023 dates - and its earlier in the year than previous years
The Brazilian event, the biggest comic festival in the Americas, will take place November 30 through December 3
April 04, 2023
Graeme McMillan
News
This is Popverse by ReedPop
Bridging the pop culture multiverse.
April 04, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
Dog Man 11: Everything you need to know about the new Dog Man book by Dav Pilkey, Twenty Thousand Fleas Under The Sea
Who is Dog Man? Who is Petey? And what does Twenty Thousand Fleas Under The Sea really mean?
March 28, 2023
Graeme McMillan
News
WonderCon 2024 dates are announced (and its slightly later next year)
The LA area's big comic convention, WonderCon, is returning in 2024
March 24, 2023
Chris Arrant
News
Marvel portfolio reviews, B2B panels, retailer-only events and a new creator breakfast highlight C2E2 2023 Pro track
C2E2 2023 to feature new wave of Creator, Retailer and Professional programming including Lunar Distribution, Dan Mora, retailer breakfast, new creator breakfast, and more
March 21, 2023
Graeme McMillan
News
Emerald City Comic Con: All the greatest coverage from Popverse at the first big convention of 2023!
Springtime in Seattle, and Popverse is back on the convention circuit with the 20th annual Emerald City Comic Con
March 20, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
Full Panel VideoShadow and Bone's Leigh Bardugo takes the stage at NYCC ‘22
A decade after Shadow and Bone invaded bookstores everywhere, creator of the Grishaverse Leigh Bardugo heads to the Javits Center for a retrospective and look at what’s to come.
March 20, 2023
Grant DeArmitt
Features
At NYCC, Shadow and Bone's Leigh Bardugo has rediscovered that books are important
Author Leigh Bardugo reflects on 10 years in the Grishaverse, the perils of adaptation, and learning to let people you trust take the wheel.
March 20, 2023
Alex Jaffe
News
Dog Man creator Dav Pilkey has created an all new comic just for indie bookstores
Indie bookstores in the US, Canada and the UK have an exclusive free comic waiting for fans...
March 16, 2023
Graeme McMillan
News
Popverse's Ashley V. Robinson joins the LA Shakespeare cabaret Shakes on the Rocks
It's Shakespeare, but faster, funnier, and with a two-drink minimum
March 15, 2023
Graeme McMillan
Features
Popverse celebrates Black creators and characters for Black History Month
Looking for some awesome articles to read? Check out these great Popverse articles this Black History Month and beyond.
February 24, 2023
Tiffany Babb
News
10 Books By Black Authors To Add To Your TBR List
Seek to diversify your bookshelf beyond the month of February.
February 17, 2023
Kylie Mason
Features
Spring in Seattle: What to do when you're in town for Emerald City Comic Con
What to do near the Seattle Convention Center
January 30, 2023
Tiffany Babb
Features
Emerald City Comic Con 2023: A first look at the Seattle comic convention's big panels for this year's event
ECCC '23 will have big guests from movies, TV, comics, and more!
January 27, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
What are we all enjoying this weekend?
The TV, movies, and comics that the Popverse team is planning on checking out this weekend
January 27, 2023
Tiffany Babb
Features
Full Panel VideoWatch as Brandon Sanderson, Alex Aster, Alina Boyden, Wesley Chu, and GennaRose Nethercott talk fantasy at NYCC 2022!
Watch the full Improbable Imaginings: AKA Flights of Fantasy Fiction panel from New York Comic Con 2022
January 26, 2023
Chris Arrant
Features
Murder, sexism, and comics: Alex Segura talks up his latest novel, Secret Identity (and the comic spin-off!)
Alex Segura talks inspirations behind his new book, and the future of his noir-comics hybrid
January 24, 2023
Hussein Al-wasiti
Features
Op Ed: Is it ever okay to work for free as a creator?
Everyone has heard the adage "Don't work for free," but does that advice always apply?
January 20, 2023
Sara Century
Features
What are we all enjoying this weekend?
The TV, movies, and comics that the Popverse team is planning on checking out this weekend
January 20, 2023
Tiffany Babb
Features
Morning tea with the Outlander cast proves fandom is still thirsty and alive at NYCC 2022
Fandom is alive and well for those in the time traveling Scotsman business.
January 19, 2023
Chloe Maveal
News
Comics vet Cullen Bunn is bringing the horror with his new Outer Shadows imprint
The new line at indie publisher Outland Entertainment will feature comics, prose, and more
January 17, 2023
Graeme McMillan
Features
Black Horror as Function, Jordan Peele, and The Keeper: Inside the Ethnogothic panel at San Diego Comic Con
The SDCC panel The Ethnogothic: Horror and Conjure in Storytelling examines the renaissance of horror works in Black speculative fiction
January 13, 2023
Christine Pasalo Norland
Features
What are we all enjoying this weekend?
The comics, TV, and movies that the Popverse team is planning on check out this weekend
January 13, 2023
Tiffany Babb
Features
Looking ahead at 2023 with Popverse
Popverse Editor-in-Chief Chris Arrant gives you a preview of what's to come in 2023 at Popverse
January 10, 2023
Chris Arrant
News
The Los Angeles Public Library brings library cards and free short stories to L.A. Comic Con
The Los Angeles Library had a big booth full of fun surprises at this year's L.A. Comic Con
December 07, 2022
Tiffany Babb
Features
MCM Comic Con London 2022: Be there from anywhere with filmed panels, celebrity interviews, and showfloor reports
MCM returns, and Popverse is here in London covering the news, panels, guests, cosplay, and more
November 21, 2022
Chris Arrant
News
Save the date: The Chicago comic convention C2E2 has revealed its 2023 dates
The Chicago staple C2e2 returns in 2023 - and returns to spring!
November 17, 2022
Chris Arrant
Features
Mary Pope Osborne chats Magic Tree House, graphic novels, and literacy
Time travel and tree houses: An interview with Mary Pope Osborne
November 10, 2022
Tiffany Babb
Features
Streaming VideoR.L. Stine terrorizes NYCC - stream his Goosebumps panel here!
Watch as R.L. Stine looks back on three decades of Goosebumps. Watcher beware, you’re in for a scare!
November 09, 2022
Grant DeArmitt
News
Federal judge blocks merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster
On Monday, Judge Florence Pan blocked the proposed merger between two publishing industry giants
November 01, 2022
Tiffany Babb
Features
Streaming VideoWatch Brandon Sanderson and Dan Wells record Intentionally Blank podcast at NYCC!
Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson and horror author Dan Wells are at the Javits Center recording a live episode of their hit podcast, Intentionally Blank
October 31, 2022
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Streaming VideoWatch - Lucasfilm Publishing presents Star Wars: Stories from a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Get transported across space and time as the creators behind today’s biggest Star Wars stories share their experiences and hint at what’s to come.
October 27, 2022
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Streaming VideoOutlander creator Diana Gabaldon holds court in packed NYCC 2022 panel - watch the entire thing!
Outlander author and New York Times bestseller Diana Gabaldon heads to Room 401 in the Javits Center - watch Popverse’s coverage here!
October 27, 2022
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Streaming VideoWatch Omar Epps speak about Nubia: The Awakening at this year's NYCC
Star of silver screen Omar Epps spoke at NYCC about telling the Afrofuturist story Nubia: The Awakening
October 26, 2022
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Streaming VideoBookTok is at London Comic Con - watch the panel here!
Travis Baldree, Tiffani Angus, and Tasha Suri head to London for a panel on the uses TikTok has for readers and writers.
October 26, 2022
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Writing Tips from Brandon Sanderson
Want to Learn to Be a Better Writer? Brandon Sanderson was at NYCC with lots of suggestions
October 25, 2022
Jim McDermott
Features
New York Comic Con 2022: Watch 30+ filmed panels, read numerous interviews and news reports, and hear conversations with celebrities
NYCC is here, and Popverse is in full force covering the news, panels, guests, and more
October 24, 2022
Chris Arrant