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Miles Morales
The Miles Morales in the main Marvel Universe is not a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man
Polygon - Meg Downey
This is not my beautiful son The name Miles Morales is just about everywhere these days. With a new starring role in Sony’s animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and a brand new ongoing comic book
Android Central
Kindle Paperwhite
Kindle Unlimited is our favorite membership, and it's 33% off right now
androidcentral.com - Louryn Strampe
A Kindle Unlimited Membership normally costs $120 at Amazon, but right now you can score an amazing 33% discount, making the total just $80.31. This …
Publishing Companies
Indie Press Polis Launches Diversity-Focused Crime Imprint Agora Books
bookriot.com - Matt Coleman
As the year closes, crime fiction readers received news of an exciting new development in the indie lit world. Jason Pinter, founder of Polis Books, …
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Historical Fiction
Frostpunk update turns Christmas into torture, but the payoff is wonderful
Polygon - Charlie Hall
A quest to save the holidays from oblivion Frostpunk, from the Polish team at 11 bit studios, is unrelenting and grim. The city-builder is set in an alternate history of 19th century Europe, where the
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Agatha Christie
What time is BBC1’s The ABC Murders on TV this Christmas? Who’s in the cast and what’s it about?
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John Malkovich and Rupert Grint are both set to star in the BBC1 Agatha Christie thriller David Suchet was always going to be a tough act to follow in …
Left-wing Politics
Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
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Four Futures: Life After Capitalism $14.95 + s/h In Four Futures, Peter Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools …
Anthony Bourdain
All Great Women Carry Snacks
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Amanda and Rebecca discuss Westerns, nonfiction, friend stories, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Read …
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Batman
Ian Rankin: By the Book
The New York Times
The crime writer, whose new Rebus novel is “In a House of Lies,” is giving his archives to the National Library of Scotland: “There might be material there for some future Ph.D. researcher … long after
Coin Collecting
Making a mint at Springdale's Shire Post By
arktimes.com - Molly Mitchell
Where the speciality is fantasy coins. Withtheir powers combined, Tom Maringer and family summon tokens from fantasy worlds into the realm of reality …
Literature
Flashgiving Winner: Ellipsis Zine
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For the month of November, we asked our readers to nominate other flash-focused journals that they thought were doing great work. In exchange, we …
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Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates review – exiled from the future
The Guardian - Liz Jensen
Time travel stories are seldom really about time or travel, and Joyce Carol Oates’s 46th novel is no exception. Audacious, chilling and darkly playful, her thought experiment about belonging and otherness
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19th Century
Ulysses S. Grant, perennially misunderstood, gets a thorough re-examination
The Washington Post - By Michael Dirda
“The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant,” edited by Elizabeth D. Samet, is everything a work of popular scholarship should be: Authoritative, thorough and compulsively readable. Where many annotated
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Books
Sister Act: On “My Sister, the Serial Killer” by Oyinkan Braithwaite
lareviewofbooks.org - By Art Edwards
WOE BE TO the novel protagonist that finds out a loved one is complicit in a serious crime. At such a moment, a wonderful gap opens in both the …
National Lampoon
10 Writing Lessons from Vintage Paperback Books | Writer's Digest
writersdigest.com - Jeff Somers
The advice to read widely is sound, but are you broadening your horizons enough? Forgotten paperback books from decades past can offer essential …
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I'm Actress Anjali Bhimani, and This Is How I Work
Lifehacker - Nick Douglas
How I WorkThe How I Work series asks heroes, experts, and flat-out productive people to share their shortcuts, workspaces, routines, and more. Have …
Fantasy
5 Groundbreaking Urban Fantasies With Unusual Settings
tor.com - Mercedes Lackey
Urban fantasy. Everyone knows what it is these days. There is even a romance-novel category for it. But back when I started writing it, it was a very …
Justice
Signifying Blackness and the Future of Humanity
nonprofitquarterly.org - By Cyndi Suarez | 1 min ago
Share Tweet Email Share N.K. Jemisin, accepting a 2018 Hugo Award. (Rogers Cadenhead/YouTube) The worlds of fashion and speculative fiction had two very …
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Fantasy Fiction
'Your neighbors wonder if you're in a demonic cult!' Fantasy author gets into hilarious feud with furious neighbor over dragon
dailymail.co.uk - Marlene Lenthang For Dailymail.com
Tis the season for revenge! A Louisiana fantasy writer has gone viral for her feud with her neighbor over her dragon nativity scene decorations on her …
Harper Collins
Short Stories: The 12 Best Collections of 2018
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This year, 2018, has been among the best in recent times for short story collections, especially by women writers and writers of color (for example: …
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Flash Fiction
Submit All Experimental/Avant Work to Angry Old Man Magazine
newpages.com - Nicole Foor
Please submit to Angry Old Man. AOM accepts visual and concrete poetry, short stories, art, photography, collage, asemic writing, blackout poetry, …
Historical Fiction
The Wicked and the Divine
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BOOK REPORT for The Wicked King (Folk of the Air #2) by Holly Black Cover Story: Big Crown Energy BFF Charm: Yay / Caution Swoonworthy Scale: 9 Talky …
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The Arts
A Silicon Valley Start-Up Offers Hints of Alternate Lives
The New York Times - By STEPHEN McCAULEY
COME WITH ME By Helen Schulman 307 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $26.99. It’s entirely possible that there are happy, well-adjusted people who never traffic in regret or ponder what their lives
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Canadian Humour
Top 15 kids movies on Amazon
radiotimes.com - By Ben Allen
From ET to Elf, check out the best children's films available on Amazon Prime Video It’s not easy to find a film that will tick boxes for every member …
Columbia University
Senior Wisom: Nikki Shaner-Bradford
bwog.com - Zack Abrams
Good thing she’s staying in NYC to enjoy more food trucks and sunshineFor our second Senior Wisdom of the semester, Nikki Shaner-Bradford shares her …
Flash Fiction
Smoke & Mirrors: An Interview with Michelle Ross
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by Christopher James Read the Story December 17, 2018 Michelle, your story’s beautiful. I love the mother, and I’ve seen you write about imperfect …
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Historical Fiction
Riot Recommendation: Tell Us The Best Historical Fiction Books?
bookriot.com - Jamie Canaves
This Riot Recommendation asking for the best historical fiction books is sponsored by CADENZA by Stella Riley, a vibrant historical romance in The …
Historical Fiction
'Phenomenal' Hammad debut sells to Cape and 11 other territories
thebookseller.com - by Michelle Obama
An “extraordinary” debut novel, The Parisian, from 27-year-old London-born writer Isabella Hammad is making waves with 11 international territories …
The Paris Review
Creative Writing
Stuck on You: An Ode to the Second Person
The Paris Review - Nell Stevens
I’m not going to write my second-person essay in the second person versus you’re not going to write your second-person essay in the second person. You tell yourself you’ll change it later. You’ll get first
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Blockchain
What happened to our promised leisure time? And will we find it in the smart city?
nakedtruth.in - Nick Falkner
Whether it’s the use of Terminator imagery, visions of dystopia, or discussions of genomics, it’s common practice to use the metaphors and framing of …
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Fantasy Fiction
The Dragons Of 'Game Of Thrones' Are Probably Partially Inspired By This Book You Read In English Class
Bustle - Charlotte Ahlin
Dragons! These magical fire lizards are a solid mainstay of fantasy, from ancient myths to The Hobbit to Pokemon cards. In some stories they're the …