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The First Science Fiction Novel?
John Crowley, perhaps best known for his novel Little, Big, used all the available English translations and worked with a German scholar to produce a new edition of The Chemical Wedding, an allegorical...
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The Best of Genre + The Best of Literary Fiction = Awesome
Vampires, dragons, and robots with lasers for eyes. These were the literary stars of my childhood. Their stories were unified by the same pattern: they began with a bang—hijinks ensued—and then the...
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Book Recommendations and Bad Advice From Kelly Link
It’s easy to feel deeply ambivalent about social media these days, especially considering Facebook and Twitter’s obvious role in enabling a minority of White Nationalist racists to dominate one of our...
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12 Contemporary Writers on How They Revise
“Writing is rewriting,” says everyone all the time. But what they don’t say, necessarily, is how. Yesterday, Tor pointed me in the direction of this old blog post from Patrick Rothfuss—whose Kingkiller...
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10 Famous Writers on Loving Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Twenty years ago today, the first episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired on the WB. Since then, it has entertained, inspired, and terrified millions of viewers—including lots of writers. Buffy is...
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How I Learned to Love the Weird, From Octavia Butler to Kelly Link
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12 Literary Writers on Stephen King’s Influence
Stephen King—prolific writer, mega-bestseller, living author with the most film adaptations to his name, crowned king of horror but by no means limited to that genre—turns 70 today. Despite (or perhaps...
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Meet National Book Award Finalist Carmen Maria Machado
The 2017 National Book Awards (also known as the Oscars of the literary world), will be held on November 15th in New York City. In preparation for the ceremony, and to celebrate all of the wonderful...
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10 Great Literary Works About Television
“For younger writers, TV’s as much a part of reality as Toyotas and gridlock,” David Foster Wallace wrote in his 1993 essay “E Unibus Pluram.” “We literally cannot imagine life without it.” Therefore,...
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The Best of Genre + The Best of Literary Fiction = Awesome
Vampires, dragons, and robots with lasers for eyes. These were the literary stars of my childhood. Their stories were unified by the same pattern: they began with a bang—hijinks ensued—and then the...
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Book Recommendations and Bad Advice From Kelly Link
It’s easy to feel deeply ambivalent about social media these days, especially considering Facebook and Twitter’s obvious role in enabling a minority of White Nationalist racists to dominate one of our...
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12 Contemporary Writers on How They Revise
“Writing is rewriting,” says everyone all the time. But what they don’t say, necessarily, is how. Yesterday, Tor pointed me in the direction of this old blog post from Patrick Rothfuss—whose Kingkiller...
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10 Famous Writers on Loving Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Twenty years ago today, the first episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired on the WB. Since then, it has entertained, inspired, and terrified millions of viewers—including lots of writers. Buffy is...
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How I Learned to Love the Weird, From Octavia Butler to Kelly Link
I didn’t know what the Weird was when I wrote my first book. All I knew was that there was this crazy story I wanted to tell, that involved immigrants and dive bars and aliens and underground cities...
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12 Literary Writers on Stephen King’s Influence
Stephen King—prolific writer, mega-bestseller, living author with the most film adaptations to his name, crowned king of horror but by no means limited to that genre—turns 70 today. Despite (or perhaps...
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Meet National Book Award Finalist Carmen Maria Machado
The 2017 National Book Awards (also known as the Oscars of the literary world), will be held on November 15th in New York City. In preparation for the ceremony, and to celebrate all of the wonderful...
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