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Let’s Talk About the Best — And Newest — Science Fiction and Fantasy Story Collections

These days, novels are the default for most science fiction and fantasy writers. But in decades past, the short story could provide not only an income but also a great deal of exposure for authors. After all, it was …
Best Top Audiobooks of the Last Year, According to Our Readers

Last month, the Audio Publishers Association announced the best audiobooks of 2020 during its virtual Audie Awards ceremony. The 25 winners included “Piranesi,” written by Susanna Clarke and narrated by
Rockport Poets to Mark Poetry Month in April

Rockport Public Library Poets’ Corner, a group that has met since 2012, will hold poetry readings in April via Zoom to celebrate National Poetry Month. Group members will read poems written by and about Jim Ostheimer, who ...
Book Review: The Perfect Science Fiction, Fantasy and Genre-Bending Tales for the Chilly Days Ahead

Winter is here. It may have taken a long time to come in George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, but when it hits, all you want to do is curl up in bed and lock the doors against the snow zombies. Winter has long ...
Book Review: Jeff Bezos’s Thoughts on Big Business, Outer Space and The Washington Post

It is quite strange, whether or not you’ve stopped to consider it, that Jeff Bezos has never published a book. Shelf after shelf could be filled with memoirs or “thought leadership” tomes from company founders who’ve ...
Book Review: In a You-Can’t-Make-This-Stuff-Up age, Hiaasen Can

Nearly all of the dozens of Carl Hiaasen’s hugely popular satirical novels, young people’s stories, nonfiction books and column collections — mainly about political corruption and environmental despoliation in the state of Florida ...
Book Review: The Charismatic, Amoral, Institution-Destroying Frebrands Strongmen of U.S. History

In the 1990s, when liberal demo- cracy seemed to have triumphed over its Cold War rivals, Americans and West Europeans sought to understand the pathologies of the ethno-nationalists, neo-Nazis, demagogues and authoritarian ...

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Let’s Talk About the Best — And Newest — Science Fiction and Fantasy Story Collections

Best Top Audiobooks of the Last Year, According to Our Readers

Rockport Poets to Mark Poetry Month in April

Book Review: The Perfect Science Fiction, Fantasy and Genre-Bending Tales for the Chilly Days Ahead

Book Review: Jeff Bezos’s Thoughts on Big Business, Outer Space and The Washington Post

Book Review: In a You-Can’t-Make-This-Stuff-Up age, Hiaasen Can

Book Review: The Charismatic, Amoral, Institution-Destroying Frebrands Strongmen of U.S. History