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Reviews: AMBERLOUGH, RIVER OF TEETH, MORMAMA, THE CHANGELING
It’s been a while! As I try to line up my notes about all the beautiful things that happened in May, here’s a bouquet of reviews that went up recently. Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly for Lightspeed: As the present US … Continue reading
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Tagged kit reed, lara elena donnelly, lightspeed, novel, npr, review, reviewing, sarah gailey, victor lavalle
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NPR Reviews: Can Xue’s FRONTIER & Cherie Priest’s BRIMSTONE
My reviewing schedule has had to slow down a bit recently, what with comps reading and teaching, but here are a couple that have recently appeared on NPR. First, Can Xue’s Frontier, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping: Pebble Town is … Continue reading
Reviews & Reviewed: Praise for Sequels and also Djinn
Two quick items of news today! First, my March column for Lightspeed is now available online, talking about how and why so many sequels last year were wonderful, with special focus on Mishell Baker’s Phantom Pains and N. K. Jemisin’s The Obelisk Gate. Second, The … Continue reading
NPR Review: THE DREAM-QUEST OF VELLITT BOE by Kij Johnson
My review of Kij Johnson’s The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe is up at NPR Books today! Reading it was — appropriately — a trip. Here’s a bit of the review: This book held me spellbound from start to finish. It put me … Continue reading
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Tagged kij johnson, novella, npr, review, reviewing, tor.com
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NPR Review: THE PAPER MENAGERIE by Ken Liu
Ah, this book. This review was very hard to write. Reviews are usually relatively simple work for me; I read a book, and as I’m reading it I figure out the things it’s doing and what I want to say about … Continue reading
NPR Reviews: MIDNIGHT TAXI TANGO by Daniel José Older and BORDERLINE by Mishell Baker
I have been remiss in posting about my NPR reviews as they go up! Here are excerpts from a couple of recent ones; my review of Ken Liu’s The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories goes up at the end of this week, but … Continue reading
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Tagged carlos hernandez, daniel josé older, lightspeed, mishell baker, novel, npr, poetry, review, reviewing, rose lemberg, short fiction, sofia samatar
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NPR Review: LAGOON by Nnedi Okorafor
My review of Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon went up this morning. Here’s a bit of it: Lagoon absolutely teems with characters, perspectives, and Englishes. Everything about it is diverse and varied: In structure it feels part oral tradition, part theater, part screenplay, … Continue reading
Rocket Talk + Fulcrum Interview
A couple of weeks ago, at Justin Landon’s invitation, I had a long, rambly, hilarious, intense conversation with him and Natalie Luhrs over Ethics in Literary Journalism (for real). Justin Landon is, however, an absolutely brilliant curator of people’s speech, … Continue reading
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Tagged ethics, fulcrum, interview, justin landon, natalie luhrs, podcast, reviewing, rocket talk, tor.com
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