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Has “New Adult” genre replaced “Chick Lit”?

Fifteen years ago, everyone was talking about Chick Lit. It was the new big genre, and candy-colored books were flying off the shelves. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Confessions of a Shopaholic, anything by Jennifer Weiner – readers couldn’t get enough of the quirky heroines who awkwardly navigated love and careers. But…
Rachel Carter
July 27, 2014
Fiction

Brian McGreevy shares an excerpt from Hemlock Grove

''It takes a rare stroke of genius to reconfigure the gothic novel within the postindustrial barrens of steel country and another entirely to upstage this conceit with a mythic and ambitious story of adolescence and alienation. Like a collaboration between Edgar Allan Poe and J. D. Salinger, this is a…
BookTrib
July 9, 2014
Fiction

Holy Mother of Dragons — scaly beasts are hot, hot, hot!

Lately it seems like dragons are everywhere. Whether you’re turning on the television, picking up a book, or heading to the movies, you’re almost guaranteed to see a fire-breathing, scale-wearing, high-flying creature. Not that we’re complaining. Dragons are a staple of the world of fantasy, way more badass than unicorns…
Rachel Carter
June 26, 2014
Fiction

Four must-read, critically acclaimed graphic novels

I spent most of my early reading life diving into thick volumes of prose, devouring everything from Little Women to Anna Karenina. Apart from some early obsessions with Archie comics and Mad Magazine (the latter stolen from my brother's room, to be returned before he could notice), I thought of…
Tahneer Oksman
May 22, 2014