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Finished reading Kenneth Slawenski's "J.D. Salinger: A Life."
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Informative and entertaining, but Slawenski spends too much time recapping Salinger's stories. Now to reread "Catcher."

I know there's no way this is because Donald Trump cosplayed as a fry cook at a closed McDonalds, but I totally believe this is because Donald Trump cosplayed as a fry cook at a closed McDonalds because I want to believe it and that's how things work now.

Some people look for meaning at the bottom of a bottle. Others by hiking or meditating. But in the lighthearted science fiction novel "The Last Gifts Of The Universe," Scout, their cat, and their brother try to find it by flying around the galaxy. To explain why, and how, check out this exclusive interview with author Riley August.
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Started reading Fady Joudah's "[…]: Poems."
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The word "unflinching" comes to mind...

Finished reading Tom Thompson’s “The Pitch: Poems.”
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You’d hope someone with a dull name would write more interesting but…
(says some asshole named “Paul”)

Started reading Tom Thompson’s “The Pitch: Poems.”
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Hmmm...not sure about this one...

Read Louise Glück’s “Winter Recipes From The Collective” tonight.
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Super good, especially the longer, multi-part .

The problem with ghosts is that you can't shoo them away. Not physically, anyway That is, unless you're Shay from A. Lawrence’s "Ghost Punch" novels. In this exclusive interview, Lawrence talks about the new installment this humorous cozy supernatural horror series, "Night Terrors."
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Finished reading Peter Reading’s “Collected Poems I: 1970-1984.”
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Far too many had him being too clever with the structure. Ah well.

With "Intersecting Eternity," author Margaret A. Babcock is presenting a follow-up to her 2021 science fiction space opera novel "Eden.2." Though as she explains in our new interview, "Eternity" is less a sequel and more like a chronologically distant relative.
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Started reading Kenneth Slawenski's "J.D. Salinger: A Life."
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Like all good biographies, this is so far as entertaining as it is informative.

Like many science fiction authors, Bethany Jacobs cites, well, other sci-fi authors when talking about her new sci-fi space opera / space fantasy novel "On Vicious Worlds." But in this new interview, she credits a certain cult classic fantasy TV show as well.
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In my new interview with authors David Weber and Richard Fox, they discuss their new military sci-fi novel "Rebel," which is the second installment of their "Ascent To Empire" series, and the second prequel to Weber's 2006 novel "In Fury Born."
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Read “The Copenhagen Papers” by Michael Frayn and David Burke this afternoon.
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Meh. Thought this rather benign story was getting weirder, and thus more interesting, but I was wrong.  Ah well.

Finished reading Christopher Golden's "All Hallows."
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Freaky good in a rather “It” / first season “Stranger Things,”/ “Village Of The Damned” kind of way.

Started reading Christopher Golden's "All Hallows."
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I know, October is a weird month to read a scary story, but I was in a mood.

Finished reading Jonathan Maberry's "NecroTek."
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A crazy and exciting mix of , , and self-referential , but damn, if he didn't pull it off...

Finished reading Tayi Tibble's "Poūkahangatus: Poems."
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At her best when she's being rough, and this excellent collection was rough more often than not.

Author D.C. Gomez isn't the first to put their own spin on a fairy tale. But she is the first to turn Little Red Riding Hood into, as she explains in this exclusive interview about her novel "Cursed By Fur, "...an assassin / serial killer with a vendetta against werewolves."
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