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Ginny Weasley would be fine without Harry Potter, says Bonnie Wright
Bonnie Wright, who plays Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter films, says her character would have been fine if Harry had married Hermione Granger instead.
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Two-sentence horror stories that will really freak you out!
An Internet genre is emerging: two-sentence horror stories, just perfect for the Twitter generation. Here are my contribution to the genre.
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A Short Halloween Story by Sam Stormborn Ormandy
A Short Halloween Story by Sam Stormborn Ormandy
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The most American fiction - according to the rest of the world
The site Literary Hub has asked writers and editors from around the world to list the quintessential American titles. Here’s what they came up with – do you agree?
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'Aurora' Journeys In A New Direction
Veteran sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson returns with a tale of that classic genre trope, the generation ship. Critic Alan Cheuse says this story of spacefaring colonists goes to unexpected places.
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Harper Lee's New Novel Features A Racist Atticus Finch
NEW YORK (AP) — Harper Lee's unexpected new novel offers an unexpected and startling take on an American literary saint, Atticus Finch. "Go Set a Watchman" is set in the
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10 Rules for Writers by Etgar Keret, the Israeli Master of the Short and Strange
Etgar Keret, above, is a best selling author and award-winning filmmaker with the soul of a teenage zine publisher. He’s a master of the strange and short who plays by his own rules.
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Review Roundup: 'Go Set A Watchman' disappoints
After months of painful waiting and wide-ranging speculation, the reviews of Harper Lee’s surprise second book, Go Set A Watchman, are pouring in....
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Harper Lee Announces Third Novel, ‘My Excellent Caretaker Deserves My Entire Fortune’
NEW YORK—Shocking the literary world once again, acclaimed author Harper Lee announced through her publisher Tuesday the surprise release of her third novel, My Excellent Caretaker Deserves My Entire Fortune.
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Weird Fiction: A Primer
On the heirs of Kafka and Borges
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George R R Martin urges fans to vote on Hugo Awards
George RR Martin
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What Harry Potter Is Actually About. Childhood Ruined.
Well here we see an odd, yet strangely plausible, fan theory that brings us Harry Potter...with a twist.
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William T. Vollmann: By the Book
The author, most recently, of “The Dying Grass” says the deader the author, the more worthwhile the book. “Who would keep bringing out editions of ‘Gilgamesh’ if there weren’t some magic in the story?”
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Michael Moorcock: “I think Tolkien was a crypto-fascist”
Michael Moorcock revolutionised science fiction with symbolism, sex and psychoactive drugs. Now, at 75, he has invented another genre. By Andrew Harrison.
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Tolkien Reads from The Hobbit in Rare Archival Audio from His First Encounter with a Tape Recorder
"He was Gollum -- as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes." In this rare archival recording from that serendipitous summer evening, sixty-year-old Tolkien reads from The Hobbit, doing a magnificent impression of Gollum in the ancient accent he so loved — please enjoy...
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Permafrost: Choose Your Own Adventure
You're heading in. Choose your weapon: The black one with grooves. The solid black one. The canary-colored one. The faded black with silver markings. The fire red with orange stripes. The flat, mat black one...
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“Lovecraft eZine” issue 35 is online, free to read! | Lovecraft eZine
Ten stories of cosmic horror, a column by Robert M. Price, and the
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The Art of Fiction No. 39, Jorge Luis Borges
This interview was conducted in July 1966, in conversations I held with Borges at his office in the Biblioteca Nacional, of which he is the director. The room, recalling an older Buenos Aires, is not really an office at all but a large, ornate, high-ceilinged chamber in the newly renovated library.
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Write the Stories of Thousands of Found Polaroids
In the 1970s and ’80s the Polaroid instant camera quickly captured family moments and delivered the images on the spot. Canadian artist Kyler Zeleny has over 6,000 of these in his Found Polaroids project, which is asking the public to create new narratives for the images with flash fiction, and to help track down the true stories behind the lost photographs.
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Young Baby's First Book
I almost died the other day while on my way to interview Al Bedell. It had been raining, and the Marcy Ave platform was rather slick underfoot as I raced to catch the oncoming M train. I ran and pivoted and slipped and would have fallen onto the tracks, had it not been for two large men who reached out from behind and grabbed me. Guys, if you’re reading this, thanks for saving my life! I would have been toast.
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