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That's My Story and I'm (Probabilistically) Sticking to It
Liam Durcan
The man kept on talking and talking, telling me about the cat that was brushing up against his right thigh at that very moment
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A Paranormal Romance
Douglas Glover
I was supposed to meet Zoe for lunch at a chic Parisian restaurant she had discovered on the Internet, a crucial rendezvous during which I intended...
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Looking West
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
In this list of recommendations, L.A. transplant and author of the massive hit novel The Nest ,Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney writes...
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Chet Baker's Son
Brandon Hobson
I left Chicago and returned to Dallas when my mother tried to overdose. She’d tried it before, usually with pills, but this time they hospitalized...
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Fictional Reinventions
Dawn Tripp
The bestselling author of Georgia, Dawn Tripp, recommends five novels that reassemble and illuminate...
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Getting to Know Harry Stephen Keeler
Ed Park & Richard PoltJanuary 22nd marks the 50th anniversary of prolific mystery and sci-fi writer Harry Stephen Keeler’s death. We asked writer and editor...
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In Poe's Shadow
Peter Straub
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...
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Five Deeply Strange Reads
Matt Bell
Shifts in time, changelings, organic buildings, levitating grandmothers, and all things odd inhabit this list from Matt Bell, author of A...
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Writing the Holocaust
Andrew Gross
In Andrew Gross’s new book, the historical thriller The One Man, physicist Alfred Mendl is imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp
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Queer Literature Top Five
Sassafras Lowrey
The author of Lost Boi picks five of hir current favorites from LGBTQ fiction.