Tag: Women Authors
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In the News: Romance Novels, Thor, Queer Sci-Fi and more…
Imagining More: Women Writing Worlds in Crisis (Literary Hub) Like all speculative writers, I was also asking myself: “What if?” What if I toyed with reality? What if I altered our actual timeline, flooding the coastlines in 2017 and sending my characters into one of the submerged cities? What if I gave my characters children…
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A Literary Contest that Excludes Men, the Success of Indie Booksellers, and more…
A Code-Obsessed Novelist Builds a Writing Bot. The Plot Thickens (Wired) A native of India, the 58-year-old Chandra supported himself as a graduate student studying creative writing in the United States by working as a programmer. He is as comfortable with code as he is with prose, and his startup, Granthika, is a geekily sublime merger…
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Witches in Fiction, Imagining Palestine through Fiction, and more…
From Baba Yaga to Hermione Granger: why we’re spellbound by ‘witcherature’ (The Guardian) Since Trump’s election, which inspired mass spell-casting by thousands of “resistance witches” (the selection of judge Brett Kavanaugh for the supreme court also led to a mass “hex-in”), there has been a slew of novels, poetry collections and anthologies with witchcraft as their theme.…
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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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YA Fiction with LGBTQ Characters, Women Dominating the Man Booker Prize, and more…
Netflix Adapting Novel ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ Into New Series (Rolling Stone) In a statement about the project, Garcia noted that their father was “reluctant” to sell the book’s film rights “for decades” “because he believed that it could not be made under the time constraints of a feature film, or that producing it…
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Flashbacks, Sean Penn’s “Novel,” Amazon Sabotaging Erotica Authors…
Sean Penn’s new novel doesn’t deserve a considerate review — or a reader’s time (Chicago Tribune) But this is not a review of “Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff,” because it is not a book that deserves to be taken seriously enough to be reviewed. Speaking from personal experience, it is very difficult to write…
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