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Staff Picks: Best of 2024
The beginning of the end….of the year! Celebrate our 2024 faves.
Staff Picks for Halloween 2024 (w/Special Guests!)
Three esteemed writers of horror join the ranks to recommend their favorite spooky books for the season.
Staff Picks August 2024
Whimsy, wit, scandal, panic, and fateful first contact—the team leaves no stone unturned with this month's recs.
Hilarity, Heartbreak, and Writing with Constraints
Award-winning author Julie Schumacher answers a few Q’s about her new novel, The English Experience, in which a curmudgeonly professor is tasked with bringing a dozen undergrads to the UK.
Staff Picks July 2024
This month, the team shows off their insatiable curiosity and sense of adventure with a wildly diverse selection of staff picks—from the patient and lyrical, to the light and comical, to the dark and foreboding.
Staff Picks June 2024
Ask this crew for beach reads, and you get serial killers and, well, more serial killers. But also distressed stand-up comics. Happy summer!
Staff Picks May 2024
In which the team endorses surreal, weird, dark, funny, affirming, and eye-opening work — including a rare non-fiction pick.
Halfway to Halloween Celebration
Join us for a Halfway to Halloween celebration on Saturday, April 29, 2024.
Complexity, Darkness, and a Strange Sense of Fun: an Interview with Colin Winnette
Fiction writer Colin Winnette generously shares his thoughts on horror, speculative sci-fi, protagonistic (im)purity, and AI as a great motivator for creativity.
Staff Picks March 2024
Two Mona Awads is better than one, plus a bonus pick for Women’s History Month.
Change is Hard: the True Cost of Credit
We don’t pass credit card fees onto the consumer, but some shops do. Here’s a quick look at the economics of that, and how consumers can help local businesses thrive.
Gothic Hustle: the Samara Breger Interview
Samara shares her thoughts on book bans, literary inspiration, defying and defining genres, and why romance runs deep in America’s legal ranks.
Stories Never Die: an Interview with Horror Writer Clay McLeod Chapman
Clay McLeod Chapman is a renowned author, filmmaker, performer, storyteller, and comic-book writer. His new gothic-horror novel, WHAT KIND OF MOTHER, comes out September 12, 2023 (Quirk Books). We chatted with Clay about horror and his place in it—and much more.