Synopses & Reviews
Publishing to coincide with the release of the new Star Wars movie in late 2015, Luke Skywalker Can't Read is a thoughtful and fun meditation on everything geek. Writer and performer Ryan Britt has never met a monster, alien, wizard, or superhero that didn't need further analysis. Alternating between hilarious personal anecdotes and provocative insights, Britt explains everything: why monster movies are just romantic comedies with commitment issues; how Dracula's sartorial style designates him as the first hipster, and much, much more. Like Chuck Klosterman and Rob Sheffield, Britt is tearing down the wall between hardcore geek culture and the mainstream.
Review
“Ryan Britt is one of nerd culture's most brilliant and most essential
commentators...the Virgil you want to guide you through the inferno of
geekery.” Lev Grossman, author of the bestselling The Magicians Trilogy
Review
"Ryan Britt is an uncontrolled experiment — a genre omnivore who has spent his time on this earth flying to other galaxies, undersea cities, freaky amusement parks, Middle Earth, Transylvania, Sherlock Holmes London, and the Cretaceous. His essays are reliably smart, surprising, provocative, and funny.” Karen Russell, author of and Pulitzer-Prize finalist for Swamplandia!
About the Author
Ryan Britt has written for The New York Times, Electric Literature, The Awl, VICE Motherboard, Clarkesworld Magazine, and is a consulting editor for Story Magazine. He was the staff writer for the Hugo-Award winning web magazine Tor.com, where he remains a contributor. He lives in New York City.