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Of Words and Dogs and Little Fishes*

I feel so blessed that I can “work” from home as a book reviewer, essayist and occasionally as a literary editor, and to comfortably say that I read for a living. It’s like living the dream (well, until the bills come in, but that’s neither here nor there). But I didn’t realize just how many [….]

LitStack Review: Bodies of Water by T. Greenwood

Bodies of Water T. Greenwood Kensington Books Publication Date: September 24, 2013 ISBN 978-0-7582-5093-3 In an interview with the San Diego Reader, author Tammy Greenwood talked about getting caught by Hurricane Irene while visiting her family in Massachusetts in August 2011. “We were totally stranded. I couldn’t drive through the crazy weather. We ended up [….]

Birthdays

On this day, May 26, in 1964, author – and paleontologist – Caitlín R. Kiernan was born in Dublin, Ireland (although their family moved to the US when they were young). Along with co-founding the Birmingham Paleontological Society and co-authoring a paper describing the new genus and species of mosasaur, they have penned ten novels, a series of comic books (at the request of author Neil Gaiman), and more than two hundred and fifty published short stories and novellas, mainly in the science fiction and dark fantasy genre. Kiernan is a two-time recipient of both the World Fantasy and Bram Stoker awards; they also fronted a goth-folk-blues band, named for a Gaiman Sandman character. Today, they turn 56.

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