Around the Web: Profiles of N.K. Jemisin and Elizabeth Hand; Reviews of Molly McGhee, Malon Edwards, Melinda Taub, Karen Lord, and Lisa Tuttle

» NY Times “Inside the Best-Seller List”, posted 19 Oct 2023: For N.K. Jemisin, Reality Inspired Horror Fiction, subtitled “She didn’t think she was going to contribute a short story to a new anthology. A stressful vacation changed her mind.” About her story in the Jordan Peele/John Joseph Adams anthology Out There Screaming.

» The New Yorker, Kristen Roupenian, 16 Oct 2023: When a Novelist Carries On What Another Novelist Started, subtitled “Elizabeth Hand’s ‘Haunting on the Hill’ is an authorized follow-up to a Shirley Jackson classic. But haunting someone else’s house comes with perils as well as perks.” Long piece about Hand’s new novel.

» NY Times, Haley Mlotek, 14 Oct 2023: This Science Fiction Novel Scrapes the Work Force of Human Suffering, subtitled “In Molly McGhee’s debut, ‘Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind,’ debt-laden citizens are recruited to ‘audit’ others’ dreams — all in the name of productivity.

» NY Times, Amal El-Mohtar’s SF&F column, 13 Oct 2023 (published in the print Book Review on 22 Oct): P.O.V.: You’re a Jane Austen Character in an Alternate Universe, subtitled “Three new books by Malon Edwards, Melinda Taub and Karen Lord.”

» NY Times, Lauren Elkin, 12 Oct 2023: A Gothic Novella With a Feminist Twist, subtitled “Lisa Tuttle’s ‘My Death’ is short, uncanny, provocative, and pays tribute to a body of forgotten literature.” (This is a review of a New York Review Books reprint of the original 2004 novella.)