Alex Sammartino’s debut novel Last Acts opens on David Rizzo, owner of a failing firearms store located in an Arizona strip mall, en route to the hospital to retrieve his...
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Hello, all. It’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to write an update, but I hope you are staying healthy and safe and finding many good books to...
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The drug of choice in How To Play a Necromancer’s Theremin is bookpowder: “ground-up pages of a reality-disrupting book called The Unfashionable Western Spiral.” The effects are similar to DMT,...
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LONDON. Michaelmas term nearly over. Implacable November weather predictably implacable. Forty-foot Megalosaurus presumably out there somewhere. Readers may recognize a version here of the first lines of Charles Dickens’s Bleak...
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Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink, co-creators of the phenomenally popular Welcome to Nightvale podcast, the “Nightvale Presents” series of podcasts, and New York Times bestselling co-authors of the new novel,...
Read moreIt's Thursday night in inner Southeast Portland, after hours at an office that has a kitchen, a foosball table and, most importantly, a conference room with a big table. Eight...
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Escape. Connect. Reflect. Sweet Briar College will host the 2nd annual Sweet Briar Summer: Arts and Writing Retreat on June 27-30, 2024. This event will feature 3-day hands-on workshops held on...
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A few months ago, I promised some nice people in New York that I would, sometime very soon, write a book.Since then, I have:Called my mom rejoicing.Called my mom crying.Considered...
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From silken sunsets and golden eagles to homemade jam and nudists, Colin Freeman shares some of the gems he’s stumbled upon in holiday visitors’ books. Last month, after a stay...
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Explore Life Kit This story comes from Life Kit, NPR's podcast with tools to help you get it together. To listen to this episode, play the audio at the top...
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