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Kevin Hearne@kevinhearne.bsky.social · 2y agoOn a day when a giant multinational union-busting corporation is having a sale I would just like to praise some awesome indie bookstores, starting with copperdogbooks.com where I will be next week (July 23) with Max Gladstone. And poisonedpen.com in Arizona has been awesome for decades (More)
Prime Day, Schmime Day. Hey, listen, indie bookstores are out there being awesome every day. And they tend to ship directly to you, even if you're not local to the store. They're where the books live! And booksellers are book wizards! Bonafide bibliomancers fast with the recommendations.
Also delighted but not stunned. Congrats!
Mary Robinette Kowal@maryrobinettekowal.com · 2y agoI'm delighted and stunned that Esquire Magazine has included The Calculating Stars on their list of the 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time. It's a good list, too! It's got a mix of books that I know and love and ones that are new to me.
Stephen King, Megan Abbott and other authors' favorites didn’t make our "Best Books of the 21st Century" list — but these writers make a case for them anyway.
Megan Abbott, Bonnie Garmus and More Writers on the Books They Love
Some of their favorites didn’t make our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list — but these authors make a case for them anyway.
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I talked to People magazine about SHADOWHEART, out tomorrow! Plus writing, and more. Inside Author Meg Gardiner's Latest Thriller About Dueling Serial Killers: 'Dark and Twisted Minds'
Inside Author Meg Gardiner's Latest Thriller About Dueling Serial Killers: 'Dark and Twisted Minds'
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of 'Heat 2' is debuting her next page-turner, Shadowheart, on June 18.
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Pour one out for all the fathers opening up their ties, Old Spice gift sets, barbecue gloves, and cards with fart jokes.
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🎧 Good talk.
Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 2y ago#Podcast: #WatchWithJen - S5: E12 - NIGHTMARE ALLEY w/ Patrick Millikin My friend, the noir scholar, freelance writer-editor, & @poisonedpen.bsky.social bookseller joins me to discuss William Lindsay Gresham's novel + the '47 classic film & 2021 version by del Toro. bit.ly/4c6ixDb
Important June Dates 3 Egg Day 4 Hug Your Cat Day 4 Cheese Day 7 Donut Day 8 Gin Day 10 Ballpoint Pen Day 13 Pigeon Day 18 Picnic Day 18 Panic Day 19 Sauntering Day 21 Longest Day (WTAF) 22 Onion Ring Day 23 Pink Day 30 Meteor Day
My latest Crime & Mystery column says goodbye to two excellent sleuths, Maisie Dobbs (by Jacqueline Winspear) and Maggie Hope (by Susan Elia MacNeal), reviews new books by John Copenhaver and William Deverell, and a classic mystery by Akimitsu Takagi.
2 Legendary Detectives Take Their Final Cases
Jacqueline Winspear is retiring Maisie Dobbs, and Susan Elia MacNeal bids farewell to Maggie Hope.
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No question it is harder and harder out there for a debut novelist. And for the novelist who has to reinvent themselves with every book.
Why Are Debut Novels Failing to Launch?
For first-time writers, it’s harder than ever to break out. That poses an existential crisis for publishing—and disturbing limits on your access to exciting new voices.
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Bakers, this Anything Cake Chart is genius & so useful. By Nicola Lamb Scanned from last weekend’s FT Magazine.
I'm at CrimeReads today with a story on Elaine May, because almost every one of her films is a crime story. crimereads.com/bound-for-be...
Bound for Betrayal: The Crime Films of Elaine May
When considering the career of Elaine May, who turned ninety-two on April 21, 2024 and remains one of the brightest lights of twentieth-century popular culture, several superlatives come to mind. P…
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Picked some of of my favorite crime novels of the year so far:
The Best Crime Novels of the Year (So Far)
Looking for some murder and mayhem (fictional, of course)? Here are the best crime novels of 2024 so far.
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Alice Munro, the revered Canadian author whose short stories dazzled the literary world and earned her the Nobel Prize in Literature, died at 92.
Alice Munro, Nobel Laureate and Master of the Short Story, Dies at 92
Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes.
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As book bans surged across Florida, the best-selling novelist Lauren Groff and her husband decided that their town needed an independent bookstore where titles that had been purged from libraries and classrooms would be on prominent display.
Book Bans Are Surging in Florida. So Lauren Groff Opened a Bookstore.
It’s called The Lynx, after the wildcat native to the state. “We wanted something a little fierce,” she said.
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RIP Paul Auster, one of the great figures of modern American letters. We ran a conversation between him and Eddie Muller in NOIR CITY magazine in 2021.
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RIP Werner Spitz, one of the giants (for good and for ill) in forensic science.
Werner Spitz, Forensic Expert in High-Profile Murders, Dies at 97
He figured in the examination of sensational cases involving President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., O.J. Simpson and others.
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