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That’s a Stephen King quote, by the way. The fuller quote is, “Fiction is a lie. Good fiction is the truth inside the lie.” It’s a statement that makes a complicated thing seem simple,…
Read story ↗Ever since conspiracies exploded into the mainstream in America and started ruining lives and families, I have been leery of them in fiction. As with our collective disinterest in dystopia, it’s hard to escape…
Read story ↗Technically, these are just my picks for the first half of 2023. There are too many good books, what can I say? Well, I can say: clear your calendars and get your favorite cozy…
Read story ↗In the world of Rebecca Schaeffer’s new City of Nightmares, a hundred years ago, people started having Nightmares. Unlike dreams that came before, and for reasons no one has yet been able to figure…
Read story ↗Cozy Fantasy is having a moment right now and for good reason: things are terrible. Not as terrible as they have been, mind you, but that’s a pretty low bar to trip over. The…
Read story ↗Jólabókaflóðið may look like a pretty stabby word, but it's actually a delightful compound that literally means "Yule book flood." It refers to an Icelandic tradition that makes books a traditional gift around the December holidays,…
Read story ↗I’m late to the party on The Helm of Midnight, published last year alongside so many other pandemic-delayed books. But please don’t let my tardiness imply anything negative about Marina Lostetter’s dark fantasy debut,…
Read story ↗I’ve always felt that visual art should make you feel something first, and secondarily aspire to teach, satirize, or otherwise comment on life. Where that feeling falls on the aesthetic spectrum doesn’t bother me…
Read story ↗The days of The Lord Ruler and his Final Empire are long behind the Wax and Wayne gang and us as readers. Yet, the rippling effect of Brandon Sanderson's original Mistborn trilogy echoes all…
Read story ↗Imagine you’ve lived in the same house for the past 20 years. You know where the creaky floorboard is and how to pull that door just right so it closes properly. You know every…
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