Blinks: PW’s Best of 2019; NYT essays and reviews; Slate roundtable with Anders and Ashby

October 25, 2019 LocEditor 0 Comments

» Publishers Weekly’s Best SF/Fantasy/Horror of 2019 are by King, Turnbull, Hurley, Starling, McGuire, LaValle/Adams, and Wendig

» Recently in NY Times: For Some Horror Writers, Nothing Is Scarier Than a Changing Planet by Naomi Booth, discussing Amitav Ghosh and Jeff VanderMeer and others

» Also, Danielle Trussoni reviews horror by Lovecraft (annotated by Klinger), nonfiction by Kröger and Anderson, a novel by Marente de Moor, and a collection by Benjamin Percy

» Also, Amal El-Mohtar reviews SF and fantasy by Dahlia Adler, Tamsyn Muir, Paul Krueger, and Annalee Newitz

» Slate: Charlie Jane Anders, Madeline Ashby, and Joey Eschrich discuss “What’s the Worst That Could Happen?”

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Spotlight on: Kelley Armstrong, Writer

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Kelley Armstrong has been telling stories since before she could write. Her earliest written efforts were disastrous. If asked for a story about girls and dolls, hers would invariably feature undead girls and evil dolls, much to her teachers’ dismay. All efforts to make her produce ‘‘normal’’ stories failed. Today, she continues to spin tales of ghosts and demons and werewolves in her Women of the Otherworld and Darkest Powers

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