Imagined Communities
Poe's adventure tale surrounding the sea voyages of Arthur Gordon Pym and his chance encounter upon Tsalal, a tropical locale near Antarctica. More
"What I discovered during my studies in Poe's and other early Americans' texts was the intellectual source of racial Whiteness. Here, in these pages, was the very fossil record of how this odd and illogical sickness formed. Here was the twisted mythic underpinnings of modern racial thought that could never before be dismantled because we were standing on them."
— Mat Johnson, Pym

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More


"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More

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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More


"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More