Tag: 2016

It was another sad year for novels, but short stories and movies boomed.

Previously: 2015, 2014, 2013

Short Stories

• “The Philosophers” by Adam Ehrlich Sachs (2016)
• “A Life of Adventure and Delight” by Akhil Sharma (2016)
• “Choking Victim” by Alexandra Kleeman (2016) 
• “These Short, Dark Days” by Alice McDermott (2015)
• “Breaking News: Guatemalan Kitchen Work Cures Ego” by Ally Yancey (2014)
• “My Curls Have Blown All the Way to China” by Amos Oz (2015)
• “Save a Horse Ride a Cowgirl” by Ann Beattie (2015)
• “For the Best” by Ann Beattie (2016)
• “1=1” by Anne Carson (2016)
• “Back the Way You Went” by Anne Carson (2016)
• “A Resolute Man” by Annie Proulx (2016)
• “The Gospel According to García” by Ariel Dorfman (2015)
• “Moon Man” by B. A. Brock (2015)
• “Cold Little Bird” by Ben Marcus (2015)
• “The Day I Met Buddha” by Benjamin F. Schafer (2014)
• “Lose the Battle” by Beth Brock (2014)
• “A Family Game” by Brendan Dubois (2001)
• “Fable” by Charles Yu (2016)
• “The Cobalt Blues” by Clark Howard (2001)
• “Lost Souls” by Clive Barker British (1985)
• “Anhedonia, Here I Come” by Colin Barrett (2016)
• “Gender Studies” by Curtis Sittenfeld (2016)
• “The Edge of the Shoal” by Cynan Jones (2016) 
• “Jelly and Jack” by Dana Spiotta (2015)
• “In the Act of Falling” by Danielle McLaughlin (2015)
• “The Blue Mirror” by David Edgerley Gates (2001)
• “To the Moon and Back” by Etgar Keret (2016)
• “Buttony” by Fiona McFarlane (2016)
• “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor (1955)
• “The Cookooburrahs and the Goolahgool” by Folktale Australia (1896)
• “Why Dogs Wag their Tails” by Folktale Filipino (1916)
• “I Know” by Galadriel Mozee (2014)
• “Mother’s Day” by George Saunders (2016)
• “The Striding Place” by Gertrude Atherton (1896)
• “The goblin and the huckster” by Hans Christian Andersen (1915)
• “My Purple Scented Novel” by Ian McEwan (2016)
• “Little Snow-white” by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (1884)
• “The Almond Tree” by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (1886)
• “The Championship of Nowhere” by James Grady (2001)
• “The Apartment” by Jensen Beach (2015)
• “Inscrutable” by Joe Gores (2001)
• “It Is Raining in Bejucal” by John Biguenet (2001)
• “Three Short Moments in a Long Life” by John L’Heureux (2016)
• “The Republic of Bad Taste” by Jonathan Franzen (2015)
• “A Gentleman’s Game” by Jonathan Lethem (2016)
• “The Abandonment” by Joshua Ferris (2016)
• “Chicken Hill” by Joy Williams (2015)
• “Stuff” by Joy Williams (2016)
• “Honey Bunny” by Julianne Pachico (2015)
• “The Bog Girl” by Karen Russell (2016)
• “The Prospectors” by Karen Russell (2015)
• “The Specialist’s Hat” by Kelly Link (1998)
• “Deer Season” by Kevin Barry (2016)
• “God’s Work” by Kevin Canty (2016)
• “The Midnight Zone” by Lauren Groff (2016)
• “Who Will Greet You At Home” by Lesley Nneka Arimah (2015)
• “The Story of a Painter” by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (2016)
• “Total Solar” by Luke Mogelson (2016)
• “The Weir” by Mark Haddon (2015)
• “Two-Bagger” by Michael Connelly (2001)
• “Man Kills Wife, Two Dogs” by Michael Downs (2001)
• “Zaabalawi” by Naguib Mahfouz (1963)
• “A Study in Emerald” by Neil Gaiman (2003)
• “The Beach Boy” by Otessa Moshfegh (2016)
• “An Honest Woman” by Ottessa Moshfegh (2016)
• “The Things” by Peter Watts (2010)
• “A Short History of Zaka the Zulu” by Petina Gappah (2016)
• “Fifty-Seven” by Rachel Kushner (2015)
• “The Three Little Birds” by Rindy Gradford (2015)
• “How Can I Help?” by Rivka Galchen (2016)
• “Usl at the Stadium” by Rivka Galchen (2015)
• “Invasion of the Martians” by Robert Coover (2016)
• “In the Court of the Dragon” by Robert W. Chambers (1895)
• “Tiny Man” by Sam Shepard (2016)
• “The Burglar” by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (2016) 
• “Summa Mathematica” by Sean Dolittle (2001)
• “By the Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benét (1937)
• “Sometimes Something Goes Wrong” by Stuart M. Kaminsky (2001)
• “Are We Not Men?” by T. Coraghessan Boyle (2016)
• “Patient Zero” by Tananrive Due (2010)
• “Aspic” by Tatyana Tolstaya (2016)
• “Dido’s Lament” by Tessa Hadley (2016)
• “The Fix” by Thomas H. Cook (2001)
• “The Driver” by Thomas McGuane (2015)
• “Papaya” by Thomas McGuane (2016)
• “Bedtimes” by Tim Parks (2015)
• “Vespa” by Tim Parks (2015)
• “The Chair Carrier” by Yusuf Idris (1974)
• “Upside-Down Cake” by Paul Theroux

  (2016

• “Spiderweb” by Mariana Enriquez

  (2016)

• “Pardon Edward Snowden” by Joseph O’Neill

  (2016)

• “Flower Hunters” by Lauren Groff

  (2016)

• “The King’s Teacup at Rest” by Michael Andreasen

  (2016)

• “The Hanging of the Schoolmarm” by Robert Coover

  (2016)

• “Two Men Arrive in a Village” by Zadie Smith (2016)
• “The Polish Rider” by Ben Lerner (2016)
• “Seven People Dancing” by Langston Hughes (1961)
• “Maybe It Was the Distance” by Jonathan Safran Foer (2016)

Novels

• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1989)

Plays

• Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (429 BC)

Comics

• “Commercial Success” by Graham Annable (2010)
• “walk-in" by Graham Annable (2010)
• "articulate conception" by Graham Annable (2010)
• "dead weight" by Graham Annable (2010)
• "misery and his company" by Graham Annable (2010)
• "futile space" by Graham Annable (2010)
• "decency" by Graham Annable (2010)
• "Old Man River" by Graham Annable (2010)
• "fishin’ trip" by Graham Annable (2010)
• "the bomb" by Graham Annable (2010)
• "love monster" by Graham Annable (2010)
• "photo opportunity" by Graham Annable (2010)
• "Sea Life" by Graham Annable (2010)
• "slight aberration" by Graham Annable (2010)
• "by necessity" by Graham Annable (2010)
• "the sound of paste" by Graham Annable (2010)
• "wee man" by Graham Annable (2010)
• "A Brief History of the Art Form Known as "Hortisculpture” by Adrian Tomine (2015)
• “Amber Sweet” by Adrian Tomine (2015)
• “Go Owls” by Adrian Tomine (2015)
• “Translated, from the Japanese," by Adrian Tomine (2015)
• "Killing and Dying" by Adrian Tomine (2015)
• "Intruders" by Adrian Tomine (2015)

Graphic Novels

• Battle Angel Alita: Angel of Chaos by Yukito Kishiro (1997)
• Battle Angel Alita: Fallen Angel by Yukito Kishiro (1998)
• Battle Angel Alita: Angel’s Ascension by Yukito Kishiro (1998)
• Hopeless Savages: Break by Jan Van Meter, Meredith McClaren, Christine Norrie (2015)
• Steve Lichman: Volume I by David Rapoza and Daniel Warren (2016)

Video Games

• Predator 2 for Sega Master System dev. Teeny Weeny Games (1992)
• Fallout 4

  dev.

  Bethesda Softworks (2015)

• Undertale dev. tobyfox (2015)
• Cibele dev. Star Maid Games (2015)
• Firewatch dev. Campo Santo (2016)
• T2: The Arcade Game

  for Sega Master System dev. Probe Development (1993)

• Castle of Illusion dev. Sega Studios Australia (2013)
• Alien: Isolation dev. Creative Assembly (2014)
• Autonomous dev. Double Fine Productions (2012)
• Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End dev. Naughty Dog (2016)
• Back to the Future: The Game dev. TellTale Games (2011)
• SPACEPLAN dev. Jake Hollands (2016)
• Ben There, Dan That! dev. Size Five Games (2008)
• Bientot l’ete dev. Tale of Tales (2013)
• Bioshock Infinite dev. Irrational Games (2013)
• Bone: Out from Boneville dev. TellTale Games (2005)

• Bone: The Great Cow Race dev. TellTale Games (2006)

• Cart Life dev. Richard Hofmeier (2011)
• The Halloween Google Doodle dev. Google (2016)
• The Simpsons Tapped Out: Halloween 2016 dev. Electronic Arts (2015)
• Headlander dev. Double Fine Productions (2016)

Short Films

• "Vincent” dir. Tim Burton (1982)
• “Madame Tutli-Putli” dir. Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (2007)
• “World of Tomorrow” dir. Don Hertzfeldt (2015)
• “Felix in Exile” dir. William Kentridge (1994)
• “Ku’u Lei Melody: A Mickey Mouse Cartoon” dir. Alonso Ramirez Ramos, Paul Rudish (2016)
• “Many Moons” dir. Alan Ferguson, The Wondaland Arts Society (2008)
• “Death in the Dust” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
• “Frozen Hell” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
• “The Bad Back Bus” dir. Graham Annable (2010)
• “Transmission at outpost 79” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
• “Old Reliable” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
• “The Lonely Hunter” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
• “Death Defying” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
• “Morning Glory” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
• “Dreams of Sloshy- number 1” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
• “Dummy” dir. Graham Annable (2016)
• “No Quarter” dir. Mike Trent (2007)
• “Defective” dir. Rani Naamani (2004)
• “One More Beer” dir. Pedro Conti, Alan Camilo (2012)
• “Lunch” dir. Graham Annable (2016)
• “Premonitions Following an Evil Deed” dir. David Lynch (1995)

• “Alien Song” dir. Victor Navone (1999)

• “Flys!” dir. Eder Cardoso (2009)
• “Halloween MADNESS” dir. Graham Annable (2006)
• “Closet” dir. Graham Annable (2007)
• “Intermission” dir. Graham Annable (2016)
• “Joy to the Weird” dir. Graham Annable (2008)
• “Reach” dir. Luke Randall (2008)
• “Help Me” dir. Isaak Fernandez Rodriguez (2005)
• “Inner Workings” dir. Leo Matsuda (2016)
• “Piper” dir. Alan Barillaro (2016)

Films

• Escape from L.A. dir. John Carpenter (1996)
• ParaNorman dir. Sam Fell and Chris Butler (2012)
• Galaxy Quest dir. Dean Parisot (1999)
• It’s Such a Beautiful Day dir. Don Hertzfeldt (2012)
• The Revenant dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015)
• Hail, Caesar! dir. Ethan Cohen, Joel Cohen (2016)
• Regression dir. Alejandro Amenábar (2015)
• Room dir. Lenny Abrahamson (2015)
• The Boy dir. William Brent Bell (2016)
• Jane Got a Gun dir. Gavin O’Connor (2015)
• Bridge of Spies dir. Steven Spielberg (2015)
• The Big Short dir. Adam McKay (2015)
• Spotlight dir. Tom McCarthy (2015)
• Brooklyn dir. John Crowley (2015)
• The Martian dir. Ridley Scott (2015)
• The Witch dir. Robert Eggers (2015)
• The Wicker Man dir. Robin Hardy (1973)
• Terminator Genisys dir. Alan Taylor (2015)
• Whiskey Tango Foxtrot dir. Glenn Ficarra, John Requa (2016)
• Anomalisa dir. Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman (2015)
• 10 Cloverfield Lane dir. Dan Trachtenburg (2016)
• Deadpool dir. Tim Miller (2016)
• Zootopia dir. Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush (2016)
• Knight of Cups dir. Terrence Malick (2016)
• Only Yesterday dir. Isao Takahata (1991)
• Dinotasia dir. David Krentz, Erik Nelson (2012)
• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dir. Zack Snyder (2016)
• Man of Steel dir. Zack Snyder (2013)
• Eraser dir. Chuck Russell (1996)
• Collateral Damage dir. Andrew Davis (2002)
• Dope dir. Rick Famuyiwa (2015)
• The Babadook dir. Jennifer Kent (2014)
• Vampire Hunter D dir. Toyo Ashida (1985)
• Captain America: The First Avenger dir. Joe Johnston (2011)
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier dir. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo (2014)
• Jungle Book dir. Jon Favreau (2016)
• Thor dir. Kenneth Branagh (2011)
• Iron Man 3 dir. Shane Black (2013)
• Thor: The Dark World dir. Alan Taylor (2013)
• Ant-Man dir. Peyton Reed (2015)
• Green Room dir. Jeremy Saulnier (2015)
• Captain America: Civil War dir. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo (2016)
• X-Men: Apocalypse dir. Bryan Singer (2016)
• The Nice Guys dir. Shane Black (2016)
• The Neon Demon dir. Nicolas Winding Refn (2016)
• Twisted dir. Philip Kaufman (2004)
• Basic Instinct dir. Paul Verhoeven (1992)
• The Saint dir. Phillip Noyce (1997)
• Twilight dir. Robert Benton (1998)
• Star Trek Beyond dir. Justin Lin (2016)
• Kubo and the Two Strings dir. Travis Knight (2016)
• Don’t Breathe dir. Fede Alvarez (2016)
• Now You See Me dir. Louis Leterrier (2013)
• The Lobster dir. Yorgos Lanthimos (2015)
• Captain Fantastic dir. Matt Ross (2016)
• Hell or High Water dir. David Mackenzie (2016)
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople dir. Taika Waititi (2016)
• Finding Dory dir. Andrew Stanton (2016)
• Suicide Squad dir. David Ayer (2016)
• Magnificent Seven dir. Antoine Fuqua (2016)
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children dir. Tim Burton (2016)
• What We Do in the Shadows dir. Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi (2014)
• Sleepaway Camp dir. Robert Hiltzik (1983)
• The Girl on the Train dir. Tate Taylor (2016)
• Deepwater Horizon dir. Peter Berg (2016)
• Desierto dir. Jonás Cuarón (2016)
• Inferno dir. Ron Howard (2016)
• Moonlight dir. Barry Jenkins (2016)
• The Handmaiden dir. Park Chan-wook (2016)
• Doctor Strange dir. Scott Derrickson (2016)
• Arrival dir. Denis Villeneuve (2016)
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them dir. David Yates (2016)
• Nocturnal Animals dir. Tom Ford (2016)
• The Take dir. James Watkins (2016)
• Loving dir. Jeff Nichols (2016)
• Allied dir. Robert Zemeckis (2016)
• Moana dir. Ron Clements, John Musker (2016)
• The Edge of Seventeen dir. Kelly Fremon Craig (2016)
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine dir. Gavin Hood (2009)
• Lion dir. Garth Davis (2016)
• The Hunger Games dir. Gary Ross (2012)
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire dir.  Francis Lawrence (2013)
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 dir.  Francis Lawrence (2014)
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 dir.  Francis Lawrence (2015)
• Trolls dir. Mike Mitchell
  , Walt Dohrn (2016)
• Sixteen Candles dir. John Hughes (1984)
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story dir. Gareth Edwards (2016)
• La La Land dir. Damien Chazelle (2016)
• The Wolverine dir. James Mangold (2013)
• Manchester by the Sea dir. Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows dir. Guy Ritchie (2011)
• Jackie dir. Pablo Larraín (2016)
• How to Train Your Dragon dir. Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois (2010)

• Wayne’s World dir. Penelope Spheeris (1992)

• Fences dir. Denzel Washington (2016)
• Midnight Special dir. Jeff Nichols (2016)
• Straight Outta Compton dir. F. Gary Gray (2015)

TV Episodes

• The Big Bang Theory – "The Bozeman Reaction" (2010)
• The Big Bang Theory – "The Einstein Approximation" (2010)
• The Big Bang Theory – "The Wheaton Recurrence" (2010)
• Sherlock – “The Abominable Bride” (2016)
• The Simpsons – "Every Man’s Dream" (2015)
• Bob’s Burgers – “The Hauntening” (2015)
• Bob’s Burgers – “Teen-a Witch” (2016)

• The Walking Dead
  – “The Day Will Come When You Won’t Be”

  (2016)

• The Walking Dead

  – “The Well”

  (2016)

• The Walking Dead

  – “The Cell”

  (2016)

• The Walking Dead

  – “Service”

  (2016)

• The Walking Dead – “Go Getters”

  (2016)

• The Walking Dead

  – “Swear”

  (2016)

• The Walking Dead

  – “Sing Me a Song”

  (2016)

• The Walking Dead

  – “Hearts Still Beating”

  (2016)

TV Series

• Californication – Season 7 (2014)
• House of Cards – Seasons 2-4 (2014-2016)
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008-2014)
• Better Call Saul – Season 1 (2015)
• Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1975)
• Daredevil (2015-2016)
• The Fall (2013-2014)
• Agents of SHIELD (2013-2016)
• Agent Carter (2015-2016)
• Stranger Things (2016)
• BoJack Horseman – Season 3 (2016)
• Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-2005)
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – Seasons 3-10 (2007-2015)
• Archer – Season 6 (2015)
• Luther (2010-2015)
• Bones – Seasons 10-11 (2014-2016)
• Luke Cage (2016)
• Narcos – Season 2 (2016)
• Futurama – Seasons 6-7 (2010-2013)

• Black Mirror (2011-2016)

• The Walking Dead – Seasons 4-6 (2013-2015)