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How to Write a Blurb: Summing Up Your Book Effectively

Finished writing your book, but now find yourself stuck on the blurb you'll use to sell it? Here's what you need to k...

Savannah Cordova

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Culling The Classics: The Invisible Man

Brian McGackin is back with a spooooky edition of Culling the Classics: The Invisible Man, just in time for ...

Brian McGackin

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Ramona Emerson’s "Exposure" Draws Compelling Parallels Between Hero and Villain

Continuing with our Halloween week features, here's Jena Brown's review of Exposure by Ramona Emerson: a paranor...

Jena Brown

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Rural Poetry, Conflicting Selves, and the Nature of Loneliness: An Interview With Erin Block

Stephanie Bonjack sits down with Colorado poet Erin Block to discuss mountain living, writing on the edge of modernit...

Stephanie Bonjack

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More Than Sheep: An Account of Kiwi Horror with Lee Murray

Lee Murray is arguably Aotearoa’s most successful contemporary horror writer.

Lindy Ryan

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Caleb Caudell: The Illusion of Connection

Indiana author Caleb Caudell's new short story collection, Novelty (Bonfire Books), is so masterfully constructe...

Gabriel Hart

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One Word Leads To The Next: Unconventional Conjunctive Devices

The other day a friend was doing a crossword puzzle and asked me, “What song begins ‘It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday…...

Chuck Palahniuk

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The Haunting: How To Conquer The Shame Of Being A Writer

The question is where to begin. One option is last autumn, when I was walking the dog past a construction site where ...

Chuck Palahniuk

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Consider This: Undecidability

Whether you’re making music or films or painting pictures… play to the strengths of your medium.  One of the asp...

Chuck Palahniuk

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“Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology” edited by Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr.

There’s a belief across numerous cultures that whistling at nighttime can attract evil spirits and misfortune. Hence ...

Christopher Shultz

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How a Resurrection Really Feels: "The Gospel of The Hold Steady"

It seems that to be a fan of The Hold Steady, or at least a guest writer in the quite culty and obsessively—both tr...

Ben Tanzer

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"Bridge" by Lauren Beukes

Bridget Kittinger has spent her life trying to reconcile the memories of her childhood with the reality of the wor...

Jena Brown

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