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PODCAST, Ep. 118 – A Spectology Crossover Event!

Happy Wednesday, friends! It’s a Reading the End / Spectology crossover event, so we’re talking about crossover books: the books that straddle the boundary between speculative and literary fiction. We welcome Spectology’s Adrian Ryan to chat about our genre-crossing faves, then review Karen Lord’s The Best of All Possible Worlds. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go! Episode 117 Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around. 1:18 – What we’re reading 6:33 – What we’re playing 11:14 – SEA OR…

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

After a slight drought in the month of March, I believe that the readathon kick-started my reading, and I am now ticking along very nicely once more. I actually have news to report! (Stop by Book Date to see what other folks are reading.) What I Read Last Week: A bunch of stuff! I finished up Han Kang’s The White Book, which was strange and beautiful as translated by Deborah Smith. A favorite line: A person who had met the same fate as that city. Who had at once time died or been destroyed. Who had painstakingly rebuilt themselves on…

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Speculative Tales from the Caribbean

Happy Wednesday! We had to push the podcast back due to me not getting it edited in time, so I instead bring you the glad tidings of Akashic Books, by way of Karen Lord’s collection New Worlds Old Ways. Have you heard about Akashic Books? They are great. They are an independent publishing company that seeks out and publishes work by “authors who are either ignored by the mainstream, or who have no interest in working within the ever-consolidating ranks of the major corporate publishers.” As you might suspect based on that description, they are based in Brooklyn. Anyway, one…

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