Tag Archives: Rebecca Stead
An Imaginary Curriculum: The Fiction Edition, Part the First
Which it’s a post where I take books generally accepted to be of Great Literary Merit and swap them for books found in–GASP–other parts of the bookstore. This is partly inspired by a conversation I had with a customer at my beloved bookstore gig at McNally Jackson. It left me wanting to rant a little bit, which I got out of my system here and won’t subject you to, but the gist was, a man was looking for “literature” for his 13 [...]
The Informed Voter Project, Part the Third: The Nebula Award Novella Finalists
Well, here we are in the third installment of the Informed Voter Project. Today I’ll be looking at the Novella finalists! In the first post on short stories I wrote that for me, each one was a tale about identity. The novelettes, I felt, sustained my little thesis. The novellas didn’t play along quite as nicely, though. This week, the Identity Thesis suffers a bit of a setback—but who cares, when the reading’s so good? The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, [...]
Adventures in the SFWA: My Efforts to be an Informed Nebula Voter
It’s Awards Season! Yes, I’ll be watching the Oscars this weekend, but I’m not really talking about that. March is voting month for members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). In May, the organization will present Nebula Awards to one exceptional short story, novelette, novella, and novel; the Bradbury Award to one film, and the Andre Norton Award to a young adult novel. Last November, on the suggestion of a couple very nice gentlemen I met [...]
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