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The Dirt: Filthy

By Heather Quinlan March 22, 2019 In Book Reviews, Featured Stories, Hard Rock Literature, News, Non-Fiction, Reviews, Slushpile Reads 0 glam rock, mick mars 0

Let me start with two things: 1) I’m glad I don’t have to code this post, because the amount of ö

A Cluster of All-Purpose Book News: February 20, 2019

By Heather Quinlan February 20, 2019 In News 0 comiccs, faith erin hicks 0

Quote of the Post:

“Comics will break your heart.” – Jack Kirby

A Cluster of All-Purpose Book News: February 11, 2019

By Heather Quinlan February 11, 2019February 20, 2019 In General, News 0 dolly parton, john steinbeck 0

Quote of the Post:

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

By Heather Quinlan January 27, 2019 In General, News, Slushpile Reads 0 alvin schwarz, children's 0

In my mind, no writer and illustrator were better paired than Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell. Go ahead, ask a Gen X’er: “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark”

Kristen Roupenian Is Not Cat Person

By Heather Quinlan January 11, 2019 In News, Rants 0 Cat Person, jenni ferrari-adler 0

As an apt follow-up to both my previous post about a writing career’s sure path to poverty, as well an earlier post about how an unknown writer’s first short story in the New Yorker led to a seven-figure deal with an S&S imprint,

NYT: Writers Will Now Starve to Death, Die

By Heather Quinlan January 9, 2019 In News, Rants 1 amazon, New York Times 0

Unless they’re Ernest Hemingway. In this edition of “Why did I major in English?” or, “Why did I go to a liberal arts college?”