New YA Books Perfect for Winter Holiday Reading

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Make the harrowing journey home with Queen Bitterblue’s sister and spy, in the fifth novel in the bestselling Graceling Realm series. Hava sails across the sea toward Monsea with her sister, the royal entourage, and the world’s only copies of the formulas for the zilfium weapon she saved at the end of Winterkeep. And while […]

Brian O’Hare: On Self-Actualization Through Fiction

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Brian O’Hare, originally from Pittsburgh, is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, and former U.S. Marine Corps officer, now an award-winning writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. Find him on Twitter , Facebook , and Instagram , and at his website BrianOHare.com . In this post, Brian discusses the process of writing his […]

An Excerpt From Emerson Whitney’s Heaven

This excerpt was first published May 20, 2021. We’re-posting it to celebrate the release of the paperback version . Natasha Marin follows-up her acclaimed Black Imagination with a brilliant new collection of sharply-rendered, breathtaking reflections from more than two dozen Black voices. I used to watch Mom on TV, would pull the videos out of […]

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They’ve announced the winner of this year’s Nordic Council Literature Prize, the leading Scandinavian literary prize, and it is the first three volumes of Solvej Balle’s septology — yes, another Nordic septology … — Om udregning af rumfang ; see also, for example, the Danish Arts Foundation information page for volume three. Balle’s According to […]

A Marriage as Bleak as a Beach Town in Winter

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“The Cape” from The Islands by Dionne Irving, recommended by CJ Hauser Introduction by CJ Hauser I think I have been confused about the nature of limbo. I once thought of it as the place I would go, as a heathen. Which is not to say I’ve done an inadequate amount of lovely things or […]

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