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Welcome to Read Like a Writer, a series that examines a different element of the craft of fiction writing in each installment, using examples from the Recommended Reading archives....

Somehow I realized a few years ago that I have read quite a few funny memoirs, mostly from stand-up comedians. It probably started with Steve Martin’s...

The influential suspense author Patricia Highsmith still isn’t exactly a household name, but her books have had a lasting effect on pop culture and literature over...

Ryan Murphy’s Netflix miniseries Hollywood has met with much (deserved) criticism over its ham-fisted efforts at rewriting film history towards a vision of queer and racial...

Anyone who regularly reads paranormal and werewolf romances knows there are a lot of common tropes. The Fated Mate trope (one of my favorites), Forbidden Romance...

Worlds crash over me and collapse at the tip of my head, and poetry helps me make sense of them all.Audre Lorde wrote: “…poetry is not...

It struck me not long ago that B-list comics villains, especially those with roots in the DC mythos, have enjoyed a renaissance since the advent of...

The world is increasingly troubling these days. And there are a lot of important books available to help us understand the modern and historic context of...

The root of the word “virus” comes from the Latin word for “poison.” We’ve learned a lot about viruses in the past century and a half,...

The act of retelling a story with a few tweaks of your own is as old as stories themselves. The religious and cultural stories classified as...