Organizers say the event will be the first major literary festival celebrating Roth in his hometown, culminating on what would have been his 90th birthday. Read more
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Month: February 2023
Artist with ‘Impulse to Shake Things Up’ Wins Yale Younger Poets Prize
Cindy Juyoung Ok, whose manuscript “Ward Toward” was hailed for its inventiveness and frankness, has received America’s longest-running poetry prize. Read more
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Ode to Samuel Delany
The Ballad of Beta-2 is a mysterious tale about generational starships taken over by superstition, paranoia, and misinformation, eventually descending into horrific acts of genocide. It also contains elements of the supernatural, or perhaps the alien, in the form of the Destroyer, an entity responsible for catastrophe aboard the ships, whose actions are misattributed to the marginalized population derisively known as the “One-Eyes.” Read more
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Vicki Hendricks, Miami Purity, and the Making of a Neo-Noir Classic
The wild, funny, sexy noir that helped launch a new era of crime fiction. Read more
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We’re All Living Under Gravity’s Rainbow
Looming apocalypse. Paranoid conspiracies. Rocket-obsessed oligarchs. As Thomas Pynchon’s novel turns 50, its world feels unnervingly present. Read more
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Publisher Halts Pitches Amid Deluge of AI-Generated Stories
One of the most prestigious publishers of science fiction short stories has closed itself to submissions after a deluge of AI-generated pitches overwhelmed its editorial team. Read more
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Roald Dahl’s Books Are Rewritten to Cut Potentially Offensive Language
New editions of the best-selling author’s children’s classics, including “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” have been altered to eliminate words deemed inappropriate. A backlash ensued. Read more
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‘Our Share of Night’ is a Masterpiece of Supernatural Horror
Mariana Enriquez’s novel, her first published in English, uses otherworldly elements to consider Argentina’s violent history. Read more
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Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
This is an absolutely fascinating and deeply troubling book. Rage-inducing and heartbreaking, it’s a rigorously researched, energetically written examination of a phenomenon laughed off for too long as fringe silliness. QAnon, Sommer suggests, is no mere conspiracy theory, nor is it simply a cult of Donald Trump worshippers. It is, in a very real sense, a part of the Trumpist Republican mechanism, a dangerous force that influences political ideology and social change—a force that cannot and should not be ignored. Read more
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Weird Tales Magazine Celebrates Centennial
Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in late 1922. The first issue, dated March 1923, appeared on newsstands February 18. Read more
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