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Ken Liu
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

Gallery/Saga Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books in Science Fiction New Books Network March 26, 2020 Rob Wolf

Ken Liu’s second collection of speculative stories explores migration, memory, and a post-human future through the eyes of parents and their children. Whether his characters are adjusting to life on a new planet or grappling with moral quandaries—like whether a consciousness uploaded to a server is still human—they struggle with the age-old... Read More

James Rosone, “Rigged” (Front Line, 2019)

James Rosone and Miranda Watson
Rigged

Front Line, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books Network March 25, 2020 Lawrence McCarren

In military thrillers, many authors attempt to create plausible conflicts and many come up short, but James Rosone and Miranda Watson‘s Rigged (Front Line ,2019), Book one of “The Falling Empire Series,” is a chilling what if scenario that is all too plausible. Rigged paints a tale that appears to... Read More

Stephen Jenkinson
Come of Age
The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble
North Atlantic Books, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books Network March 25, 2020 Eric LeMay

Today I interviewed Stephen Jenkinson. He’s not only an author, an activist, a musician, and the founder of a school, but also an inspired etymologist, a spiritual trickster, and a mythopoetic storyteller cracking sticks and tossing them into a low fire as the spirits in the embers rise with his... Read More

Carrie Vaughn
The Immortal Conquistador

Tachyon Publications, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Fantasy New Books in Literature New Books Network March 17, 2020 Gabrielle Mathieu

Ricardo de Avila would have followed Coronado to the ends of the earth. Instead, Ricardo found the end of his mortal life, and a new one, as a renegade vampire. For over five hundred years, Ricardo has upset the established order. He has protected his found family from marauding demons,... Read More

K. M. Szpara
Docile

Tor.com, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books in Science Fiction March 12, 2020 Rob Wolf

In Docile (Tor.com, 2020), the debut novel by K.M. Szpara, people pay off family debts by working as indentured personal assistants to the ultra-wealthy. Tor describes the book as a “science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power.” Szpara describes the book as “really gay.”... Read More

Maya Rodale, “An Heiress to Remember” (Avon Books, 2020)

Maya Rodale
An Heiress to Remember
The Gilded Age Girls Club
Avon, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Historical Fiction New Books in Literature March 12, 2020 C. P. Lesley

As Maya Rodale notes early in this interview, romance novels tend not to get the same respect as other categories of fiction, historical or otherwise. Here, and in her Dangerous Books for Girls, she argues persuasively that this bad reputation is an attempt by life’s insiders to undermine the central message... Read More

Berry Grass
Hall of Waters

Operating System, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society March 10, 2020 Eric LeMay

Today I interview Berry Grass, an essayist with a powerful new collection of linked essays called Hall of Waters (Operating System, 2019). Grass’s aim is nothing less than to demythologize the American Midwest. Grass wants us to see something like the true history of the land and the culture from... Read More