Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number Devolver Digital/Dennaton Games March 10th 2015 I was gifted the first Hotline Miami game ages ago and adored it. Beautiful colors, intense gameplay, unnerving artwork and confusing narrative + story theming, and the most amazing soundtrack to a video game I’d ever played. I was looking forward to the sequel…
The Thursday Book Beat: Penguin Random House to Answer Diversity Survey
Penguin Random House joins diversity survey They join Macmillan and Scholastic, making a total of three of the Big Five publishers among the participants in the Lee & Low survey. The decision is a great step forward in acknowledging the very real lack of diversity in the publishing industry, and identifying the ways in which…
In the In Between: Make Your Home Among Strangers
Make Your Home Among Strangers Jennine Capo Crucet St Martin’s Press August 4 2015 Amid the chaos of her home life—her parents splitting up, her nephew’s father refusing to acknowledge his baby, and her demanding boyfriend—Cuban-American Lizet applies to a super elite college. She doesn’t tell anyone but the guidance counselor at her under-performing, troubled high…
Family and Survival at the Ottawa International Animation Festival
From September 16-20 I had the opportunity to attend the screenings for the four competing feature length animated films at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. At first glance the films could not have been more different from one another. There was The Magic Mountain, a Romanian/Polish/French film about a Polish refugee fighting the Russians in…
