Interviews and Profiles
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Queen of Sin - Publishers Weekly
“BookTok has been a kind of revolution,” Ana Huang says via Zoom from the blurred but evidently pristine living room of her Jersey City home.”
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Life is a Highway: PW Talks with Alison Cochrun
“Estranged childhood best friends take their dying mentor on a cross-country road trip in Cochrun’s Here We Go Again”
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Olivie Blake Faces Her Fandom - Publishers Weekly
“‘The fandom creator in me is always aware of the reader as an entity that’s involved,’ Blake says.”
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Chuck Tingle Goes Mainstream…Ish - Publishers Weekly
“The book may also be the best evidence of Tingle’s sincerity. It’s not often that a horror novel could be described as wholesome, but Camp Damascus has heart as big as its bite.”
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It’s Not Easy Being Greenwashed: PW talks with Sim Kern - Publishers Weekly
“Kern calls their full-length adult debut a tale of ‘coming of age in protest spaces.’ “
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Hidden Histories: PW talks with Maya Deane - Publishers Weekly
“Deane’s debut, Wrath Goddess Sing , a retelling of the Iliad, reimagines Achilles as a trans woman and pits her against an unusually powerful Helen of Troy.”
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Writers to Watch Fall 2020: Natalie Zina Walschots - The Millions
“The cynical millennial narrator of Natalie Zina Walschots’s darkly comic debut, Hench, earns a living temping as a henchwoman for supervillains.”
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Wars of the Roses: PW Talks with Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese - Publishers Weekly
“In A Queen from the North, York and Lancaster remain at odds into the 21st century, but a royal wedding may end their feud.”
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Anchors in the Past: PW Talks with Lisa Jackson - Publishers Weekly
“In the romantic thriller Liar, Liar, a woman investigates the death of someone who resembles her long-missing mother.”
Criticism
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Phoebe Recommends: “Relatively Easy” by Jason Isbell - Memoir Mixtape
“Fair warning: I have very rarely been able to listen to it without crying.”
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Phoebe Recommends: “Ribs” by Lorde - Memoir Mixtape
“To hear someone so young sing “I want ’em back/Those minds we had,” has a bizarro kind of poignancy. Nostalgia eating its own tail.”
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ONE PERFECT EPISODE: “The Return” - Drunk Monkeys
“Girl-meets-monster is a tale as old as time. She tames him or he corrupts her. He transforms into a prince and they get their happily ever after, or else she dies, tragically, symbolically, violently, senselessly, the way women in fiction often do. “
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TV’s Top 20 Teen Witches - The Dart
From Willow to Dark!Willow to Rayanne Graff (I can explain).
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Freya and Keelin are Queering Up The Originals - The Dart
“In the transition from monsters to love interests, the vampire story has moved from "how the vampire will corrupt the woman" to "how the woman will tame the vampire.""