Love Rocks: Angel or Sinner?
Are you a reader who commits the “sin” of reading the back of the book before you start reading? I’m angelic in the sense that I always start at the beginning of a book without peeking ahead. I even read series in [...]
Are you a reader who commits the “sin” of reading the back of the book before you start reading? I’m angelic in the sense that I always start at the beginning of a book without peeking ahead. I even read series in [...]
In an espionage master's latest, war is a booming private enterprise.
[...]Anthony Marra and NoViolet Bulawayo discuss their provocative debuts, and the honorable responsibility of drawing fiction from history.
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May 22: The video game Pac-Man, featuring "the most iconic character from the golden age of arcade video games," was released on this day in 1980. Over the next decade, gamers spent over $2.5 billion in quarters on Pac-Man, making [...]
May 21: The musical smash hit Gypsy opened on Broadway on this day in 1959. The bestseller upon which the show is based, Gypsy Rose Lee's memoir Gypsy, told her life as a rags-to-naked success story, and added to her [...]
You’ve been a Lonely Guy, A Slightly Older Guy and now—assuming the fates have been kind—you’ve become a Considerably Older Guy. Reach round and pat yourself on the back—if you can manage—and congratulate yourself for having come this far along [...]
May 16: Studs Terkel was born on this day in 1912. Terkel's dozen books of oral history, compiled over a half century, are regarded as essential chronicles of this American life, especially as lived by the blue-collar class into which [...]
Suave detective Easy Rawlins is back – among the living - after a literal cliffhanger of a car crash, in hot pursuit of a missing LSD-addled boxer roaming Los Angeles, 1967.
[...]A Russian ship trapped in ice, the first Confederate submarine, and the world's worst summer camp are but three settings for Ethan Rutherford's tales of expeditions gone awry. A Discover Great New Writers selection.
[...]A serialized war of worlds packs the analogous power of militaristic SF old and new.
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