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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Jon Wiener and his latest book, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, co-authored with Mike Davis

    Entrevista con un autor: Jon Wiener

    Jon Wiener es editor colaborador de The Nation desde hace mucho tiempo y presentador y productor de "Start Making Sense", el podcast semanal de la revista. Es profesor emérito de Historia de Estados…

  • Author Chelsea Sedoti and her latest novel, It Came From The Sky

    Entrevista con una autora: Chelsea Sedoti

    Chelsea Sedoti se enamoró de la escritura desde muy joven tras descubrir que inventar historias era más divertido que hacer las tareas escolares. (Sus profesores no siempre lo apreciaron). Ahora…

  • H.G. Parry and her new novel, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians

    Entrevista con un autor: HG Parry

    HG Parry vive en un piso repleto de libros en la costa de Kapiti, Nueva Zelanda, que comparte con su hermana, un gato, tres cobayas y dos conejos hiperactivos. Tiene un doctorado en Literatura Inglesa…

  • Playwright and screenwriter, Byron Lane and his first novel, A Star is Bored.

    Entrevista con un autor: Byron Lane

    Byron Lane es dramaturgo y guionista. También ha trabajado como periodista y asistente personal de celebridades, como Carrie Fisher. Es originario de Nueva Orleans y vive en Los Ángeles con su novio y…

  • Author Carrie Vaughn and her latest book, Ghosts of Sherwood

    Entrevista con una autora: Carrie Vaughn

    Carrie Vaughn es conocida por su serie de novelas Kitty Norville, éxito de ventas del New York Times, sobre una mujer lobo llamada Kitty, quien presenta un programa de radio para personas con…

  • Author TJ Kline and his book, The Extraordinaries

    Entrevista con un autor: TJ Klune

    TJ Klune es un autor ganador del Premio Literario Lambda y exexperto en reclamaciones de una compañía de seguros. Entre sus novelas se incluyen "En este río me ahogo" y "La casa en el mar cerúleo". Su…

  • Author Gretchen Berg and her first novel, The Operator

    Entrevista con una autora: Gretchen Berg

    Gretchen Berg nació en la Costa Este, se crio en el Medio Oeste y pasó varios años en el Pacífico Noroeste. Ha enseñado inglés en Corea del Sur y el norte de Irak, y ha viajado a todos los demás…

  • Author Grady Hendrix and his latest book, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires

    Entrevista con un autor: Grady Hendrix

    El galardonado autor Grady Hendrix ha escrito sobre la bandera confederada para la revista Playboy, ha cubierto novelizaciones de películas de terror y enjambres de ninjas para medios como Slate y el…

  • Author Elizabeth Little and her latest book, Pretty as a Picture

    Entrevista con una autora: Elizabeth Little

    Elizabeth Little es la autora de "Querida Hija", ganadora del Premio de la Crítica Strand a la Mejor Novela Prima, y de dos obras de no ficción: "Mordiendo el Renacuajo de Cera" y "Un Viaje de Lengua"…

  • Author and chemist, Dr. Kathryn Harkup and her latest book, Death By Shakespeare

    Entrevista con una autora: Kathryn Harkup

    La Dra. Kathryn Harkup es química y escritora. Obtuvo un doctorado sobre sus sustancias químicas favoritas, las fosfinas, y continuó su investigación postdoctoral antes de darse cuenta de que hablar…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Secret Identity

    Secret Identity

    • By: Segura, Alex
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 1975, the comic book industry is struggling. It has survived, mostly, Frederic Wertham’s criticisms and claims regarding a causal relationship between reading comics and becoming a juvenile delinquent in Seduction of the Innocent. But there have been casualties. Readership is down. Publishers are closing. Writers and artists are left...
  • The City We Became

    The City We Became

    • By: N. K. Jemisin
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    N.K. Jemisin is a multiple award-winning, speculative fiction writer. Currently, she resides in Brooklyn, New York and, as evidenced by her novel, The City We Became, she LOVES the “Big Apple”.Every century or so, a city will “manifest”, it becomes a living thing, an entity of its own. This has...
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    Redwood and Wildfire

    • By: Hairston, Andrea
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Redwood Phipps is an African-American girl. Aidan Wildfire Cooper is a Seminole Irish young man. The two are brought together by a hateful act of racial violence, which affects both of them for the remainder of their lives. But both are determined to keep the event from defining them. In...
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    Real Easy

    • By: Rutkoski, Marie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    One woman murdered. Another woman missing. A police detective traumatized by her recent past. An unidentified killer. Was this their first victim or the latest in a series of murders? Will they strike again? If so, when?In Real Easy, Marie Rutkoski, who has been known until now for her outstanding...
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    The Mary Shelley Club

    • By: Moldavsky, Goldy
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Last year, Rachel Chavez survived a home invasion. In an attempt to provide her with a new start, her mother, who teaches at Manchester Prep, an affluent Manhattan high school, moves them from their Long Island house to a Brooklyn apartment and enrolls Rachel at Manchester Prep.Since the attack, Rachel...
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    Under the Whispering Door

    Wallace Price is a successful, driven attorney, and a founding partner of a powerful law firm. He is a person of privilege with everything he wants or needs, and then suddenly, he isn’t. Wallace dies unexpectedly. He was not particularly old and was in fairly good health, although his heart...
  • Cover image for A Quilt for David

    A Quilt for David

    • By: Reigns, Steven
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    On September 3, 1990, Dr. David Acer, a dentist who worked in Jensen Beach, Florida, died from complications from AIDS. Four days after his death, Kimberly Bergalis, a young woman who was also HIV+, accused Dr. Acer of infecting her with the AIDS virus during a recent visit to his...
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    Out of Body

    • By: Ford, Jeffrey, 1955-
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A small-town librarian, a senseless killing and a centuries-old horror have been preying on a community for over a hundred years. These are the building blocks used by Jeffrey Ford as a foundation for his chilling horror novella Out of Body.On his way to work as the librarian at his...