Update
An author I’ve admired deeply for a long, long time, Charles Yu, won the National Book Award yesterday for his 2020 novel, Interior Chinatown! If you don’t know his work yet, you’re in for a treat. A quirky, hilarious, mind-melting, metapunk treat. Here’s an intro to his work I wrote for BookRiot a few years ago.
In fact, let’s just do it. If you’re a paying Monstrosity Hoard subscriber, you just got automatically entered into a random drawing to win a copy. I’m the queen and this is my decree—winner will be announced in December!
In other news, flamingos by the yard are back, thank goodness. The Mother of Feminism has finally been memorialized…and feminists kind of hate it. Who are the creepiest cats of speculative fiction? And, the longest book series to get you through winter 2020-21, aka the longest time of all our lives.
Horse in the hospital countdown: 61 days.
P.S.—Holiday schedule is coming. No newsletter next week. Happy Thanksgiving to all celebrating in the U.S.! Since we aren’t visiting with family this year to keep everyone COVID-safe, my house is doing an all-pie feast—sweet pies, savory pies, nothing else.
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At the FANTASY+GIRLS Podcast, author Em Shotwell and I have a fresh new episode releasing this morning as we celebrate a weird Thanksgiving in a weird year … with a weird podcast.
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