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Junior Edition #42

I was six years old; we had recently moved to Maine from Tennessee, and my father read it aloud to my sister Cynthia and me, one chapter at a...

In this list of recommendations, L.A. transplant and author of the massive hit novel The Nest ,Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney writes...

The bestselling author of Georgia, Dawn Tripp, recommends five novels that reassemble and illuminate...

January 22nd marks the 50th anniversary of prolific mystery and sci-fi writer Harry Stephen Keeler’s death. We asked writer and editor...

In honor of Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday on January 19th we asked master horror writer Peter Straub (and editor of the anthology Poe’s...

Shifts in time, changelings, organic buildings, levitating grandmothers, and all things odd inhabit this list from Matt Bell, author of A...

In Andrew Gross’s new book, the historical thriller The One Man, physicist Alfred Mendl is imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp

The author of Lost Boi picks five of hir current favorites from LGBTQ fiction.

The author of When We Were Animals selects five fictional books that reflect on the art form.