In this week’s paper, I reviewed Seth Grahame-Smith’s foray into undead Jane Austen adaptation, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies:

With his first novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith invents a genre: In an undead Jane Austen adaptation, there must be brains, and there must be braaaaains. Unfortunately, Grahame-Smith is already breaking the rules.

Read the review here.

Welcome back to another edition of Five Minutes* You’ll Never Get Back, City Paper’s sex and politics podcast. This week, City Lights Editor Mike Riggs and I discuss the pros and cons of cinema’s most recent abstinence-only vegetarian tween vampire phenomenon, Twilight. (Our usual cohort, Intern Bobby, gets a pass this week).

Topics discussed: Jane Austen, morality, ballet studio, Pootie Tang, Edward Cullen, Zac Ephron unlike Edward Cullen, Mike Riggs unlike Edward Cullen, feasts of flesh

* okay, ten minutes.