Laetitia Pilkington's no-good husband threw her out on the street, penniless. Most women would have disappeared. But Laetitia survived, thanks to a sparkling wit and a willingness to spill ALL OF THE TEA in print. She's my hero and she should be yours, too.

She Was the Best Stand-Up Comic in 18th Century London

Just a quick note: I’m publishing my first novel for adults since 2019! Lessons in Magic and Disaster comes out this August — it’s about a yo...

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell casts a huge shadow over the book world. I'm seeing a flood of books that borrow its genre-hopping, generation-spanning format. So in my latest newsletter, I wonder: is Cloud Atlas becoming a genre on its own?

Has "Cloud Atlas" Become a Genre?

Thanks for reading my newsletter! If you wanna consume even more of my words, I have a novel coming out in August. It’s called Lessons in Magic a...

To find out more, I talked to four authors who play in the Cloud Atlas sandbox: Namwali Serpell (The Old Drift) Khan Wong (Down in the Sea of Angels) Charles Soule (The Endless Vessel) Roisin Dunnett (A Line You Have Traced)

Americans confused by the Canadian election need to learn the two types of democracies: 1) a Parliamentary system 2) a Funkadelicary system In a Parliament, Dr. Funkenstein summons the Mothership to defeat Sir Noze In a Funkadelic, freeing your mind allows your maggot brain to create one nation

This month in the @npub1wepe...xvdk I'm reviewing three science fiction/fantasy books that are damn near perfect and should be on everyone's TBR pile: https://wapo.st/4cR9Iik New books by A.E. Osworth, Isaac Fellman and Akwaeke Emezi!

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