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A Horse at Night is Amina Cain’s first book of nonfiction, an essayistic rumination on the practice and philosophy of writing. The book mostly focuses on Cain’s...

Two stutterers walk into a bar.  No, really. John Hendrickson and I arrive at The Library in the East Village on a Sunday afternoon. We wave...

When Frank Cotton opens the Lament Configuration in Hellraiser, he is disappointed. He was told that doing so would expose him to pleasures wholly unknown to...

I love reading about work, probably because it’s more fun to read about jobs than it is to actually do them. Not that I haven’t experimented...

The central character in Leyna Krow’s debut novel Fire Season is a schoolteacher-turned-prostitute-turned-swindler named Roslyn, who happens to be in possession of certain supernatural abilities. It...