novels An interview with Charlie Kaufman about his new novel takes a weirdly meta Kaufman-esque turn Thom Dunn

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horror The Mind Thing, by Fredric Brown: excellent pulp-era science fiction Mark Frauenfelder

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Comics Read the first 10 chapters of my serialized Comic-con satire novel Thom Dunn

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Book World Made By Hand is a post-pandemic world novel Mark Frauenfelder

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novels Stephen King talks about his new novel, The Institute Mark Frauenfelder

math Dover edition of Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland (1884) Mark Frauenfelder

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books S.E. Hinton reveals why Johnny and Dally had to die at the end of The Outsiders David Pescovitz

books The Way of the Shadow Wolves, a novel by Steven Seagal Rob Beschizza

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novels Interview with Ken Follet about forthcoming 3rd book in Kingsbridge series: A Column of Fire Mark Frauenfelder

science fiction After On – a novel of a Silicon Valley startup by Rob Reid Mark Frauenfelder

writing Forensic experts recover novel written by blind woman with a pen that had run out of ink Rob Beschizza