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“That act of reconstruction, my attempt to tell the story of how two remarkable people fell in love, is my novel.” Stephanie Sy-Quia on writing about her grandparents. | Lit Hub Craft
“This annotated edition and companion essays beautifully illuminate Verne’s vision and explore what it still reveals about the promise and challenges of space exploration today.” –Laurie Leshin, former Director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
From the acclaimed author of American Mermaid comes a wise, funny, and wildly original examination of female desire and the price women pay for giving in to their appetites.
“The question driving the protagonist throughout the novel is not: How do I write the best poetry possible? It is, more modestly: How do I get from here to there?” On Shakespeare and Philip Owens’s Picture of Nobody. | The Baffler
“These characters don’t exactly ‘die’ when memed, but their innocence does, because that’s the whole point of the meme.” What the internet did to Snoopy. | Dirt
A THRILLING DUAL-TIMELINE DEBUT!
A dual-timeline debut set in an English country manor. An ambitious professor discovers the long-lost manuscript of a Reformation-era prophetess. Crackling with the voices of the past and propelled by a suspenseful mystery.