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With Katabasis, acclaimed fantasy author R.F. Kuang puts her own hellish spin on dark academia. With Katabasis, acclaimed fantasy author R.F. Kuang puts her own hellish spin on dark academia. Sarah ...
Everyone knows that if you want to be a better author, you need to read. And sure, everyone needs to read, but you can’t ...
B.T. Polcari is a graduate of Rutgers College of Rutgers University, an award-winning mystery author, and a proud father of two wonderful children. He’s a champion of rescue pups (Mauzzy is a rescue), ...
Witherspoon launched her book club in 2017 with the goal of “sharing stories centered around women to elevate their voices,” and it has since become a phenomenon in the publishing world, almost ...
How to raise money for a coveted poster: put your friends to work! John, founder of the FUBU fashion line and a Shark Tank venture capitalist, offers a self-referential blueprint for financial success ...
A guide to Alaska’s glaciers featuring an A-to-Z list, nature essays, and frequently asked questions. Here, the wonders of Alaska’s glaciers are covered in three distinct parts. First up in Klouda’s ...
The iconic model tells the story of her eventful life. According to the acknowledgments, this memoir started as "a fifty-page poem and then grew into hundreds of pages of…more poetry." Readers will be ...
Featuring 287 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and YA books; also in this issue: interviews with Maggie Stiefvater, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Meg Medina, and J.D. Netto; and ...
A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, ...
Mason describes the “evolutionary lineage” of life as a woman in this nonfiction work. Aiming to expand on the old chestnut identifying a woman’s developmental stages as “maiden, matron, and crone,” ...