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The Ghosts of Kings by Amy Flint
There’s never a dull moment for paranormal investigator Porter Biggleswade. Newlyweds Bernard and Jill don’t think wedded life is so blissful after their honeymoon. Two weeks in Egypt, and now Bernard is being haunted. The case takes Porter to the Valley of the Kings, where the past catches up with her. But can she really…
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TK Lawyer, author of The Guardian League
When and why did you begin writing? Almost five years ago, unhappy and craving something different than my boring, mundane day job and not seeing myself working at my day job for another thirty plus years and being any happier, I literally screamed in my kitchen for something more. I shouted that I wanted something…
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Graphic Novel Satirizes Chicago Gentrification, and more…
The Novel That Accidentally Predicted the College-Admissions Scandal (Vanity Fair) The Gifted School is a novel set in Donald Trump’s America but not about Trump’s America—or at least not directly. It’s a novel about privilege, economic inequality, racial disparity, but also about ambition, friendship, and family, about the twinned challenges of parenting and growing up in a pressure-cooker environment…
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Queer Literature, Black British Writers, and more…
What happened to Britain’s black avant-garde fiction writers? (Independent) Why did it take me so long to learn of Margaret Busby, who, 40 years after these figures, became the first black woman and youngest publisher in Britain, and whose recent New Daughters of Africa shows black women writers in Britain well before the arrival of the Windrush generation.…
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Privacy in Sci-Fi, Historical Fiction Surging, and more…
Science Fiction’s Preoccupation With Privacy (The Atlantic) Two recent literary science-fiction novels, Pola Oloixarac’s Dark Constellations and Namwali Serpell’s, add the increasingly radical concept of privacy to Le Guin’s list. Oloixarac is Argentine and Serpell is Zambian, and both set their novel in their country of origin, creating post-colonial futures in which surveillance poses disturbing…
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Rewriting History, Robot Writers, and more…
A Horrorshow Find: ‘Clockwork Orange’ Follow-Up Surfaces After Decades Unseen (NPR) So, according to Burgess scholar Andrew Biswell, the novelist got to work on a brief piece, which soon became a big piece, which eventually ballooned to 200 pages. Written under the name The Clockwork Condition, the work was to be a philosophical meditation on…
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Kirby Michael Wright, author of The Queen of Moloka’i
When did you first consider yourself a writer? I didn’t think of myself as a writer until I swept the awards at San Francisco State University. I was denied admission into the MFA Program before this unprecedented achievement, with the majority of tenured professors voting against me. So, I waltzed into the Creative Writing office…
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Fan-Fiction at the Hugo Awards and more…
In China, science fiction enjoys an efflorescence (The Hindu) Ironically, it is science fiction — a genre that is often dismissed as the plaything of nerds, geeks, and social misfits — that has actively imagined the consequences of technological changes. For the adherents of realism, or ‘serious literature’, science fiction is the literary equivalent of…
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Racism in Romance Fiction and more…
In Defence of Young Adult Fiction (The Boar) The problem with being forced to read classics was that it took away all the enjoyment I found in reading. I could no longer read for pleasure and instead found that everything I was reading was either for my personal statement or related to one of my…
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Black Women Comic Book Writers, Robot Writers, and more…
Comic book sheroes: A look at Chicago’s new wealth of black female comic book talent (Chicago Tribune) As more diverse creators enter the comics pool, more black women are coming into shops and inquiring especially about books written and drawn by other black women. Joshua Kelly, manager of Graham Crackers Comics in the Loop, has…
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