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Jan
12

Review: HENCH by Natalie Zina Walschots

I just loved this book so much!
2 min read
Jan
08

Friday Open Thread (with a New Year)

Sun setting on Ottawa and 2020Dear Friends, I’ve missed several of these Fridays as the holidays bore down, and
1 min read
Jan
05

2020 in Book Reviews

All the books I reviewed in 2020, from which I distil 9 faves
6 min read
Dec
21

Winter Solstice, 2020

2 min read
Dec
11

Friday Open Thread (with Release)

Dear Friends, For weeks I’ve been labouring over a Big Important Job Application (for “labouring” read “unproductively stressing”), but
1 min read
Dec
10

Brooklyn Book Festival Event: In Conversation with Arkady Martine!

Tonight, 8PM EST!
Dec
04

Friday Open Thread (with Review)

Dear Friends, I’ve missed so many Fridays! A colleague once said to me “November is a bear,” and didn’
1 min read
Dec
02

Letter of News: Reviews, Can*Phemera, Time War Deals

Dear Readers, November is past! December is here! What times, what a time, what is time. December is my birthday
4 min read
Nov
09

Letter of News: Ignyte, Illumicrate, Otherworldly, and a Chat with C. L. Polk

Dear Readers, It’s been a while! In the last Letter of News [/letter-of-news-podcasts-awards-readings/] I’d not yet moved house,
3 min read
Nov
06

Friday Open Thread (with Birds)

Dear Friends, A brief question today: do you have an especially beloved, especially admired, especially associated-with kind of bird? I
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