Glen Weldon
Contributor
Glen Weldon is a contributor to NPR's pop culture blog Monkey See, where he posts weekly about comics and comics culture. He also reviews books and movies for NPR. org and is a regular panelist on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast.
Over the course of his career, he has spent time as a theater critic, a science writer, an oral historian, a writing teacher, a bookstore clerk, a PR flack, a seriously terrible marine biologist and a slightly better-than-average competitive swimmer.
Weldon's fiction and criticism have appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Story, The Iowa Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Dallas Morning-News, Washington City Paper, Quarterly West, the American Literary Review and many other publications. He received an NEA Arts Journalism Fellowship, a Ragdale Writing Fellowship and a PEW Fellowship in the Arts for Fiction.
More From Glen Weldon

Book Reviews
Legends Spring To Life In The 'Armed Garden'
Artist David B. renders ecstatic visions, religious fervor and bloody battles in his new book.

Book Reviews
Mysterious 'Habibi' Cuts To The Core Of Humanity
Craig Thompson's latest graphic novel is a love story that also tackles the roots of religion.

Movie Reviews
'Captain America': Speak Tersely, Carry A Big Shield
Lady Liberty's boy wonder does his genre proud with a slick, streamlined origin. (Recommended)
