So, good news! Well, for me, anyway, and for any of you who enjoy listening to me yak for extended periods of time about pop culture: I now have a column at The Book Smugglers! It’s called Trope Anatomy 101, and I suspect that the most clever among you will manage to divine what I’ll be discussing there. Specifically, I’m going to pick one trope per month and, in the near-but-not-quite words of Matt Damon, overanalyze the shit out of it.

If that sounds like your kind of thing, check out the first column: Trope Anatomy 101: Learn to Love Your Mary Sue.