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Jun
17
The river Clyde dark grey and sparkling under a mass of cloud through which sunlight pours in billowing streams.

Letter of News: Glasgow, Signed Books, Otherworldly

Dear Friends, I'm writing to you from Glasgow, Scotland, where I've been for the better part of two weeks, wrestling
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May
20
Photo of me on the left next to textbox that reads FOUR NEW BOOKS FROM AUTHOR AMAL EL-MOHTAR, above the Tor Books logo.

Letter of News: Wayward, Yellowface, and Kind of a Big Deal

Dear Friends, I promise this isn't a daily newsletter! These are merely extraordinary circumstances! I'm writing to you from Vancouver
2 min read
Dec
03
Close-up on a thin scrim of ice on a river's edge, with thin reeds and grasses poking through it in chilly lacework.

Friday Open Thread (with December and Gifts)

Dear Friends, It's December, Sagittarius season, and my birthday month, bringing with it the end of the teaching term and
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Jul
19

Letter of News: NPR, Book of Dragons, Blaseball Zine

I wrote some blaseball erotica and you can read it.
4 min read
Jun
03
Review: Casey McQuiston's ONE LAST STOP

Review: Casey McQuiston's ONE LAST STOP

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Apr
20

NYT Otherworldly Column: Princesses, Priestesses and Time Travel

[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/books/review/merry-spinster-daniel-mallory-ortberg.html] My second column for the NYT Book Review is
Feb
22

First OTHERWORLDLY column at the NYT Book Review

My first column for the NYTBR is here [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/books/review/new-science-fiction-fantasy.html] ! The
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Feb
07

NPR Reviews: Nnedi Okorafor's THE NIGHT MASQUERADE and Kim Purcell's THIS IS NOT A LOVE LETTER

A couple of reviews I wrote went up on NPR these last couple of weeks! Here are samplings of them:
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Nov
09

NPR Review: THIS MORTAL COIL by Emily Suvada

Nothing quite signals the approaching end of the year like the number of reviews I have left to write. This
1 min read
Oct
30

NYT Review: THE POWER by Naomi Alderman

If you blinked at the title, well, I’ve been doing that for about a week. I wrote a review
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