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Cormac McCarthy shaped a generation of writers like me — even when we didn't admit it
LA Times via Yahoo News· 12 months agoFor the entirety of my writing life, Cormac McCarthy has been a mountain. Some of the novelists of my generation found the mountain beautiful; others found it oppressive. But virtually all of ...
In a Korean author's U.S. debut, uncanny pleasures rear their ugly heads
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOver the last couple of decades, literary fiction has increasingly unhinged its jaws to gulp down genre fiction, creating new, lumpy hybrids — Stephen Graham Jones’ bloodily stitched together ...
Books: folklore and fantasy combine in Langabi, a supernatural historical epic from Zimbabwe
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIn 2023, award-winning Zimbabwean author Christopher Mlalazi published a new book, Langabi: Season of the Beast. He’s the author of novels like Running with Mother (2012), Dancing with Life: ...
Climate Fiction Won't Save Us
Esquire via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAs the world burns, readers increasingly look to climate fiction for hope, predictions, and actionable solutions. But can the genre really be a manual...