
In our afternoon reading: fiction by Joanna Ruocco, recommendations from Sam Amidon, and more.

In our afternoon reading: fiction by Joanna Ruocco, recommendations from Sam Amidon, and more.

In our afternoon reading: new writing from Samuel R. Delany, interviews with Quenton Baker and Joanna Ruocco, a playlist from Barbara Browning, and more.

Interviews with Joanna Ruocco, Anne Helen Petersen, and John Branch; new writing from Ben Greenman and Molly Rose Quinn, Civil Coping Mechanisms announces a new imprint, and more.

Talking novels with John Darnielle, Will Chancellor interviewed, Caryn Rose on The Replacements, an upcoming marathon reading of The Outsiders, and more.
Earlier in the month, I came across Jo Walton’s glowing review of Angelica Gorodischer’s Kalpa Imperial. (The English translation is by Ursula K. Le Guin.) Then I read Sofia Samatar’s write-up of the same book, and realized that I should probably give it a proper read, as it had been glaring at me from my to-read shelf for a while. And, sure enough, I found it to be terrific. Largely organized as a storyteller recounting the long history of an empire, […]
The Mothering Coven by Joanna Ruocco has been on my “to read” list since I first heard about it last year. This podcast Ruocco did at Apostrophe Cast, has bumped the book up a few spots.