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Author Interview | Alden Bell

“If the literary crowd is keeping itself from the pleasures of zombie fiction, then it’s doing itself a disservice.” - Alden Bell, author of The Reapers are the Angels. I love the internet, I really...

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Beautiful Book Beginnings

I love it when books start off by caressing your reading muscles. Some books just start off feeling right, like you have slipped into a warm bath. Here are three examples (feel free to disagree, that’s...

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Harlan Ellison and Pain

I am a latecomer to Harlan Ellison, and I am a fool for it. I kept hearing how wonderful his stories and collections were, but I never read anything. My Kindle changed that. I bought a copy of...

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Five Great Faulkner Quotes

William Faulkner was a genius. This morning I got a package from Amazon.com, that included a set of three Faulkner books, an Orpah Book Club package titled A Summer of Faulkner, and a little pamphlet...

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Passages I Love, Volume 1

Some books are just better than others; some writers better. The following passage is taken from Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero, and is one of my favorite passages from the book. The clock-maker wiped...

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Reading Pathways | Michael Ondaatje

I’m entering Book Riot’s START HERE Write-In Giveaway. I was originally introduced to Ondaatje’s books because I don’t speak any Danish. As a child I moved out of my native Iceland because my father...

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Friday review: The Grapes of Wrath

I just finished it. One of the finest books of the last century. I’m still in a sort of muted shock. The last time I felt this way was when I finished Beloved. It is a book that has something to say...

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3 Promising New Books

My birthday was on Saturday, so I have some new books! My friends and family know enough to give me books on my birthday and for Christmas. Here is this year’s birthday’s book loot. 1.  The Prague...

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The Best Writing of the Week

I started reading A Tale of Two Cities last week, and in chapter five I found an amazing passage. The passage describes a voice. Many writers, lesser writers than Dickens, might use a single adjective....

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The Best Writing of the Week

I’m currently reading a number of books, as is often the case. I’m sure there’s a word for it. These include but are not limited to, UnMarketing, Trust Me I’m Lying, A Tale of Two Cities, Fire in the...

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The Best Writing of the Week | Elmore Leonard

I’m just finishing up Elmore Leonard’s short story collection, Fire in the Hole. The book has nine stories that are all of the very highest quality and I bought it for two main reasons: I wanted to get...

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Starting the Day Right

I opened Twitter this morning to find a very special tweet waiting for me. @johannthors that is a powerful combination— justin cronin (@jccronin) October 24, 2012 I am a fan of Cronin’s Passage books...

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Felix Gilman Poll Poetry

Recently-interviewed author Felix Gilman just tweeted a poem of sorts. “An Ohioan sits atop his tractor, his face lined with care. Soon they will come and ask him to choose a new King. He feels it in...

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OMG Dickens!

So, I’m reading A Tale of Two Cities, one of Charles Dickens’ better known books. I am increasingly of the opinion that he is the greatest writer of all time. I admit that he is at times overly...

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The Next Big Thing | My Work in (little) Progress

Every now and then I seethe with envy as I see bloggers tagged and awarded by other bloggers, challenged to take part in a chain-blogging what-have-you. I thought of them as blackballing bastards that...

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The Secrets That Dwell in the Back of Dark Books

I’m reading a dark, dark book, and in the back I found a dark, dark secret. I tend to read books completely; the preface, the introduction, the dedication and all appendices and epilogues. Doing this...

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Of Writerly Doubts

Self-doubt is the lead weighing down the writer’s running shoes. And the thing is, every writer has moments of self-doubt, even the great ones, the ones that have made it into the mainstream, the ones...

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The Best Writing of The Week | Harlan Ellison

Neil Gaiman told me to read Harlan Ellison, and if Mr. Gaiman says something, I obey. (This is also why I read Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell) I come relatively late to Harlan...

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7 Great Book Dedications

Dedication are the little things at the front of many books that we skip over to get to the first chapter. Small and overlooked, the dedication is often the author’s way of getting in a “Hi mom!”...

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Author Interview | Barry Napier

Barry Napier is an amazing writer who gets far less attention than he deserves. Barry has had more than 40 short stories and poems featured in print and online publications. He is the winner of a...

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