The “Wheel of Time” and My Complex Relationship with the Epic Series
This LitStack Rec not only examines character building but also some of the challenging aspects of gender portrayal in the...
This LitStack Rec not only examines character building but also some of the challenging aspects of gender portrayal in the...
In the Old Testament, the tale of the Tower of Babel is only nine short verses long. More an aside...
I had love expectations for Amazon’s Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. It is based mostly on the...
One of the things about being a writer is that in some ways, you never leave school. Textbooks, grades, and...
I was reading a book the other day. It was a very good book, extremely well written, very imaginative. The...
A while back I was fortunate to read, in close succession, three masterful works in the science fiction/fantasy genre that...
As a middle-aged, monogamous white CIS woman, it may seem strange that I’m recommending LGBTQA books in the scifi/fantasy genre...
The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri "How do you clothe a book?" is the how this small, but powerful...
I confess that I was one of those mothers. You know the type, the one who screened everything my kids...
There is a baby in my home. Evidence of his existence is littered around us, blocking the sparse surroundings with...
An Actress, Yes, But Also an Amazing Writer I first came across Carrie Fisher, as so many of us did,...
The Varying Poverties of Now In the appendix to his brief but radiant 2010 manifesto ‘Reality Hunger’—a supremely confident and...
So there I am, in a small hotel between the Costa Brava and Sitges, once again unpacking the bag I’ve...
Pushcart Prize 38: Best of the Small Presses, ed. by Bill Henderson Now in its thirty-eighth year, the Pushcart Prize...
William Shakespeare The Sonnets It may be a day late to pin this recommendation to the 450th anniversary of the...
Paolo Bacigalupi is an award winning science fiction writer. Author of the amazing book, The Windup Girl (which won the...
The Wheelbarrows of Violence After missing a 7:15am train on my way upstate last Saturday, I was talking to a...