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Finished reading Rae Armantrout's "Next Life: Poems" tonight.
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Unsurprisingly, this ended as strong as it began.

Who says The Grim Reaper can't be a woman ... named Kathy? Certainly not author Maxie Dara who, in this exclusive interview, talks about her "cozy mystery against a magical realism backdrop" fantasy / mystery novel "A Grim Reaper's Guide To Catching A Killer."
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A tiny, fragile, useless wall? Geez, we get it, , you feel bad about your penis! Stop taking it out on everyone else and get over it.
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In "The City In Glass," her new fantasy novel about angels and demons, author Nghi Vo defies expectations by having it be about demons and angels. To find out how, and why, check out this exclusive interview.
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With "The Armageddon Protocol," author Dan Moren is presenting the final book in "The Galactic Cold War" series. Though as he explains in this exclusive interview about this sci-fi space opera spy novel, "final" might not be the right word...
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Started reading Angela Sylvaine's "The Dead Spot: Stories Of Lost Girls." 🐝
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Man, that first story was Fucked. Up.
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Started reading Angela Sylvaine's "The Dead Spot: Stories Of Lost Girls." 🐝
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Man, that first story was Fucked. Up.
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Like other writers assembling a collection of their short stories, Kirti Bhadresa did so around a theme for her first short story collection, "An Astonishment Of Stars." Though as she explains in this exclusive interview, the theme is...uh...kitchens.
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Started reading T.H. White's "The Once And Future King."
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"We're...Knights of the Round Table..."

Finished reading Isaac Asimov's "I, Robot."
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While individual were good, I found this collectively worked better when I approached it as a collection with a framing device as opposed to a novel comprised of short stories.

Started reading Rae Armantrout's "Next Life: Poems" tonight.
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Unsurprisingly, this starts off strong.

Read Aliette de Bodard's "Navigational Entanglements" tonight.
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A very unique and interesting story, though some aspects did remind me, in a good way, of "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within."

Finished reading Kim Addonizio's "Exit Opera: Poems."
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Good overall, but especially so when she wrote about something you wouldn't think someone would write a poem about.

While many fantasy novels are inspired and influenced by, well, other fantasy novels, in my exclusive interview with author Lynn Buchanan, she says her fairy taleu-esque adventure fantasy novel "The Dollmakers," was inspired by a painting and influenced by the films of an iconic anime studio.
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Written as a prequel, L.R. Gaunt's fantasy adventure novel "9th Dawn: The Book Of Nameless" shows what happened 100 years before "9th Wave: Remake," the updated version of the old school video game "9th Wave." To learn more, check out this exclusive interview with Gaunt.
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Read "The Maids" part of Jean Genet's "'The Maids' and 'Deathwatch': Two Plays" tonight.
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Genet at his most biting ... and he had quite the bite.

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