Author Archives: TONY MCMILLEN

About TONY MCMILLEN

Tony is a writer and novelist living in Boston. If you wanna party with him find him on Facebook. If you are David Lee Roth time displaced from 1984, don't worry, he'll find you.

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REVIEW: THE KICKSTARTER LETTERS BY DAVID DAVID KATZMAN

Posted on April 26, 2013 by TONY MCMILLEN

Last year David David Katzman released his second novel, the psychedelic fairytale A Greater Monster, and he did so with a highly successful Kickstarter campaign. Part of the reward system for funding A Greater Monster was that Katzman would write each contributor a stream of consciousness letter inspired by that person’s name or a story suggestion from them. Katzman has now taken the best 65 of these letters and packaged them together along with some weird and whimsical artwork from illustrator Mike Wilgus into one gorgeous and utterly unique work he calls The Kickstarter Letters.
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TOUCH THE WONDER: BOB SEGER IS A WEREWOLF

Posted on April 22, 2013 by TONY MCMILLEN

Yes, Bob Seger, the man who sings the only songs that can make your dad cry, is in fact a werewolf. Sometimes as a journalist you’re presented with a story so shocking, so reality damning, that you have no choice but to present it without any scientific evidence to back it up. Because the truth is just too important to wait for crap like the facts to catch up. Wonder up sucka. Continue reading →

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INTERVIEW: ILAN MOCHARI, AUTHOR OF ZINSKY THE OBSCURE

Posted on April 17, 2013 by TONY MCMILLEN

As I tell it to you I can’t believe this is the way it went down, but in all the years of writing Zinsky I never thought about how it was like The Who’s rock operas. Continue reading →

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REVIEW: ZINSKY THE OBSCURE BY ILAN MOCHARI

Posted on April 17, 2013 by TONY MCMILLEN

It’s been awhile since I’ve read a book and at least every other chapter been compelled to say out loud, “Holy sh-t.” Continue reading →

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REVIEW: THE STUD BOOK BY MONICA DRAKE

Posted on April 8, 2013 by TONY MCMILLEN

Monica Drake’s first novel, Clown Girl, has been optioned for film by Kristen Wiig. When that flick gets made even your long dead grandmother will know who Monica Drake is.
And who she is, as evidenced by her new novel The Stud Book, is an author who knows how to craft a sharp satire that’s riddled with unexpectedly poignant moments. Continue reading →

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TOUCH THE WONDER: HERE COMES THE SUN

Posted on April 5, 2013 by TONY MCMILLEN

I have learned from this last winter that when the Sun Dad decides to roll back into town, it’s best to take his a$s to the cleaners. Continue reading →

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TOUCH THE WONDER: LETTERS TO THE FOOD I EAT

Posted on February 22, 2013 by TONY MCMILLEN

In an attempt to revive the lost art of correspondence I submit the following letters I have written to various food items that have throughout the years proved to be an important part of shaping who I am. At times literally, natch. A touching of the wonder unlike any other. Continue reading →

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TOUCH THE WONDER: CHOOSE YOUR OWN MISADVENTURE!

Posted on January 28, 2013 by TONY MCMILLEN

Remember those excellent Choose Your Own Adventure Books you read when you were a kid?

You know, those books that were interactive and written in second-person and you got to determine the choices your character made and stuff? Yeah, weren’t those swell? Tell you what, in lieu of the usual Touch The Wonder column what do you say we all play a grown up version of one of those gamebooks? Just read along and when you get to the part that asks you “What do you do?” pick one of the numbered choices. Then scroll down and follow it to the next part of your story.And be careful, you are about to enter a world of dangerous celebrities, sexually deviant inanimate objects, food trucks with crap pun names; and numerous unintended grammatical errors. Wonder up kids. Continue reading →

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TOUCH THE WONDER: GREATEST UNMASKED MASKED CHARACTERS

Posted on December 7, 2012 by TONY MCMILLEN

Remember in The Dark Knight Rises when Bane was getting all sad panda on us and said, “No one cared who I was until I put on the mask.” He was right. We love masks and we love the characters that wear them. But even more than that we love to finally have the true face of the masked revealed to us at the end of the story. Continue reading →

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TOUCH THE WONDER: EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING

Posted on November 9, 2012 by TONY MCMILLEN

We’ve all seen the pics from the Robocop remake and we’ve all wept profusely. To cheer you up here are 5 Remakes, Covers Or Adaptations That Are Even Better Than What They’re Based On. Continue reading →

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TOUCH THE WONDER: NYC COMIC CON 2012 REVIEW

Posted on October 17, 2012 by TONY MCMILLEN

Tony McMillen, handsome handful, journeys to NYC Comic Con after being unable to acquire a press pass and yet still finds a way to get an exclusive interview with Spider-Man. Even if he had an Eastern-Bloc accent. Also he sat front row at the Venture Bros. panel, met and gushed at Erik Larsen, the creator of Savage Dragon, and was impressed and oppressed by the sea of sweaty, costumed humanity he was swallowed up by. Wonder up f-ckers! Continue reading →