Barely more than a year later, and the literary mash-up craze started by Quirk Books has boomed into a monster of its own undoing – or so it seemed. Sifting through piles of Vampires & FILL-IN-THE-BLANK titles rushed onto shelves to entice teenage girls and Twilight-loving moms is something of a daunting task. Thankfully, in [...]
Another classic mash-up from Quirk Books lands in bookstores today. Its latest Frankenbook is Leo Tolstoys’ Anna Karenina, or Android Karenina ($8, Amazon), as written by Ben Winters (Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters.) With Android, Winters has given Tolstoy’s beautiful Russian epic a steampunk edge, filling the book with robots, space travel and yes, [...]
Friday, Feb. 19, 2010
If the entertainment industry knows how to do one thing, it’s how to beat the proverbial dead horse. (Please see: Spider-Man.)
