Relentless Adaptations and Seamonsters and Vampires and a Latte Please

@Fangbooks tweeted today: bloggers… would love to see an opinion piece on whether the trend towards rewriting/adding to 'classic' works is good art or lazy writing

As it happens, I have very strong opinions on this topic, and my answer is: yes.

Of course it's good art. Of course it's lazy writing. Of course some of the works that have emerged from this trend are cynical, shallow texts. And of course some of them are pure brilliance. This is what books do, that is, EVERYTHING.

I wrote the...