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The Syfy hit Battlestar Galactica was the most talked-about drama when it aired from 2003 to 2009, and Jacob Clifton at Television Without Pity has been part of that conversation since it started. GUNS IN THE TEMPLE is the second of six volumes, collecting Jacob’s popular columns throughout the show’s Winter 2006 season. Four months into the Cylon occupation of New Caprica, the Resistance continues as Adama and Apollo argue over the plan to rescue the colonists. We move from guerilla warfare to terrorism as the insurgency grows, and eventually the Fleet return. Viruses both computer and...

Troubled by violence at home and abroad, American eleven-year-old Ashley Anderson begins a crusade for children's rights. But what begins as an ambitious plan for pacifist reform, a bid at being taken seriously, will degenerate into a dangerous and frightening game for survival: Compromise, betrayal, and some well-intentioned adults will twist her aims into a gun pointed at the very innocents she was trying to protect. Somewhere between Judy Blume and Abbie Hoffman, between online safe-havens and child soldiers and terrorists, lies an Antarctica of loneliness: It’s cold as hell there. ...

The ABC Family hit Pretty Little Liars has been the most talked-about show on television since its debut, and Jacob Clifton at Television Without Pity has been part of that conversation since it started. ONE THING ABOUT BOYS is the fourth of seven volumes, collecting Jacob’s popular columns throughout the show’s Summer 2012 season. It’s been five months since A was revealed, and now Emily is just drunk all the time. She gets kidnapped and taken on a whirlwind tour of time and space before ending up at Alison’s grave, where A gets new pictures to hold over the girls’ heads. As ...

"The child fell screaming out of the stars. Across her back, like a hunter’s catch, he fell; the girl went down upon one knee in the snow and had her dagger out before she’d gotten a fair view of him... He seemed to be a boy, not yet ten. He rolled with laughter in the patches of the snow, clutching at his little belly. Hair red as sunset, cheeks ruddy in the cold. The girl stood and stared down at him as he laughed, eyes wild, and then up at the bright, hungry moon." So begins the story of Kenning Cross, a peaceful village full of wonders. Witches and their apprentices, a man who ...

When Gossip Girl first aired on the CW, in the fall of 2007, it was the definition of a buzzy, low-rated hit. That did not last long, as the show changed the conversation around YA, programming, and the industry itself--and Jacob Clifton, at Television Without Pity, was there for every second. WHEN YOU WERE A FEVER covers the balance of Season One, including the precipitous return of Georgina Sparks, the complicated love of Eric and Asher and Jenny Humphrey, twists and turns for Mrs. Lily van der Woodsen Bass Humphrey and more. Vanessa is also there. Over fifteen years writing and creating ...

After spending their teens in a holistic commune, learning to control their mental powers, all Nadine Blumenthal and her best friend Apache want to do is drink margaritas, work part-time in retail, and become old maids in the Bartleby Creek Trailer Park. But after Nadine's marriage fails spectacularly, she receives a recruitment letter from the mysterious Halcyon Clinic, a psychic healthcare facility with an agenda to redefine the limits of human thought. Forgotten betrayals, family histories, psychic healers and telepathic surgeons, an all-girl witch militia, Teiresias as a Unitarian ...

When Gossip Girl first aired on the CW, in the fall of 2007, it was the definition of a buzzy, low-rated hit. That did not last long, as the show changed the conversation around YA, programming, and the industry itself--and Jacob Clifton, at Television Without Pity, was there for every second. LOOK HOW GOOD YOU ARE is the first of several volumes collecting Jacob’s popular columns throughout the show’s first fall season: From the Pilot to the show's first major masterpiece, the Thanksgiving episode "Blair Waldorf Must Pie!" and including the classic, game-changing "Victor, Victrola" arc...

The ABC Family hit Pretty Little Liars has been the most talked-about show on television since its debut, and Jacob Clifton at Television Without Pity has been part of that conversation since it started. I HATE YOU & YOU MUST SAVE ME is the first of seven volumes, collecting Jacob’s popular columns throughout the show’s Winter 2011 season, in which: HANNA’s recovery from getting run over by a car is hindered by: a lasagna box, mean cupcakes, a nasty danceathon, and a sweet werewolf that betrays her before leaving town, thanks to Mona’s manipulations. EMILY comes out to her parents, ...

The Syfy drama hit Battlestar Galactica was the most talked-about show on television when it aired from 2003-2009, and Jacob Clifton at Television Without Pity has been part of that conversation since it started. WHAT DO YOU HEAR? is the fourth of six volumes, collecting Jacob’s popular columns throughout the show’s final, Winter 2009 season. Both the harsh fate of "Earth" and Starbuck's own destiny are revealed, and the Final Final of the Final Five. Roslin questions her faith, and Zarek turns on humanity for its alliance with the 258 Cylons -- with some surprising allies. Ellen Tigh ...

Unlock the "Wild Magic" of your writing and defeat writer's block for good. From pioneering cultural critic and veteran writer Jacob Clifton comes a revolutionary guide to the creative process, reframing writing not as a chore, but as an act of "wild magic". Drawing from 25 years of professional experience, Zen Buddhist principles, and a journey through creative burnout, Clifton offers an empathetic and sustainable practice to help you silence your inner critic, reconnect with your voice, and make writing a joyous part of your life. The Wild Writer's Herbal provides the tools you need to ...

Bates Motel is the most surprising, thrilling and subversive retelling of the mythic story of Oedipus since the original. Taking hints from noir, the classic films and novel, and other pulp writers and poets associated with the Hitchcock canon, A&E’s modern classic is a treasure trove of chills and—most surprisingly of all—the strongest and most compassionate exploration of the American family in the last decade. A show so loving toward its characters, so richly detailed and so explosive in its energy, rage and kindness deserves appreciation no less dramatic. PAST THE BREAKERS is a ...

The ABC Family hit Pretty Little Liars has been the most talked-about show on television since its debut, and Jacob Clifton at Television Without Pity has been part of that conversation since it started. DESTROY EVERYTHING YOU TOUCH TODAY is the second of seven volumes, collecting Jacob’s popular columns throughout the show’s Summer 2011 season (and the creepy inaugural holiday special, "The First Secret.") A doctor-ordered cooling period between the girls is completely ignored, as Aria’s mom closes in on the wrong suspect for Ezra’s jailbait girlfriend and Hanna’s stepsister life...

Gods. Superheroes. Monsters. And the Men Who Love Them. What if superheroes were the closest thing we have to gods? And what happens when those gods are just men, falling apart under the weight of love, fame, and the universe itself? From author Jacob Clifton comes Everything All of the Time, a masterful, genre-bending collection of five novellas that plunges into the heart of queer masculinity against epic backdrops of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror. These stories explore the intimate spaces between impossible men as they navigate faith, grief, and desire on battlefields ranging...

The Long Game ends, the Bad Wolf arrives. Ten years ago, Queer As Folk’s Russell T. Davies brought Doctor Who back to our screens after a lengthy hiatus. What followed was a journey into the mind of one of television’s premiere storytellers, a meditation on class and spirituality, and a work of wonder that built bridges across the Atlantic that has changed the course of our culture forever. Television Without Pity writer Jacob Clifton was new to the show and its core concepts when he began his weekly column writing about the show for an American, and eventually global, audience. But the...

The ABC Family hit Pretty Little Liars has been the most talked-about show on television since its debut, and Jacob Clifton at Television Without Pity has been part of that conversation since it started. WEAK ADULTS & CORRUPT CHILDREN is the third of seven volumes, collecting Jacob’s popular columns throughout the show’s Winter 2012 season. A month after somehow being framed for Ali’s murder, the girls act out and are total messes. Emily almost kills A, yet again, and get glass in her hair. Hanna runs over A with her car, which is satisfying. In a moment of panic, Hanna tries to ...

In a city powered by glamour, fame is the only magic that matters. For Estelle Harlowe—famous for being famous and getting out of cars at 4 a.m.—staying in the spotlight isn't just a career. It’s the only thing protecting her from a deadly supernatural pact that demands her life on her twenty-first birthday. Her Q-rating is her shield, and the paparazzi are her unwitting guardians. But when a new ingénue named Selena Kirke arrives in town, threatening to steal her spotlight, Estelle’s carefully curated existence begins to unravel. A desperate magical inquiry leads her back to the ...

Theodore Castelline hits the ground running, after a very dishonorable discharge from his former post as librarian to the greatest military corporation the City of Earth has ever known: In lieu of a death sentence, he has been reassigned to the graduate program at Carrier’s Outriding, a space station and archive of incalculable age and wisdom, slowly succumbing to madness and in desperate need of a defrag. THE OPEN LINE follows Theodore’s first week in his new home, as he makes the acquaintance of his crewmates and finds himself the unwitting key to solving a crisis that could result in...

Ten years ago, Queer As Folk’s Russell T. Davies brought Doctor Who back to our screens after a lengthy hiatus. What followed was a journey into the mind of one of television’s premiere storytellers, a meditation on class and spirituality, and a work of wonder that built bridges across the Atlantic that has changed the course of our culture forever. Television Without Pity writer Jacob Clifton was new to the show and its core concepts when he began his weekly column writing about the show for an American, and eventually global, audience. But the community and conversations that began ...

The ABC Family hit Pretty Little Liars has been the most talked-about show on television since its debut, and Jacob Clifton at Television Without Pity has been part of that conversation since it started. YOU TURN INTO SOMETHING ELSE is the fifth of seven volumes, collecting Jacob’s popular columns throughout the show’s Winter 2013 season. With the new A in full force, commanding a team of friends and enemies, the question is really who will break first. Mona’s free to come and go at Radley Sanitarium, until she finally returns to school and a whole new relationship with the Liars. But...