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Getting to Know Harry Stephen Keeler

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.

The author of Casualties picks five books by authors who got their start a little later in life.

Maybe it’s instructive that I more or less recall the book but not the exact title or author of the book. It was a YA biography of Helen Keller...

Before I could read, I was read to, and there was only one book that was read aloud in our house. I am four years old. Then five, then six, seven