“The parallels between food and writing are so obvious and clear. It’s hard to talk about them because they’re inherent.” ~ Steven Brust .... Cooking the Books is an ongoing interview project that explores the meeting points between genre fiction and food. From Joe Haldeman to Elizabeth Bear,…
When Arkady Martine sets out to do a thing, she does it completely and thoroughly. That’s true whether she’s running an academic conference...
Alexander London‘s first young adult novel, Proxy, blew me away. His middle grade books are wonderful. And now the newest addition to the...
Author Lauren Teffeau’s Implanted debuted just before worldcon in San Jose, and she’s been journeying far and wide to talk about her high-tech science fiction...
Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng arose earlier this year from Angry Robot Press and my Cooking the Books co-host Aliette de Bodard and I...
What Mary Robinette Kowal brings to the Cooking the Books table is no fewer than seven novels, two short story collections, more than 70 short stories,...
Chelsea Polk‘s glorious debut novel, Witchmark, from Tor.com Publishing and Tor Books is almost here. Still time to preorder! In Witchmark, an alternate post-War world...
Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Indiebound I’ve walked so many of the paths in The Girl And the Grove (Flux Books, May 2018) from Fairmount Park to Kelly Drive and...
John Scalzi: Man of international mystery, burritos, and pie? OR fleet-footed author of over thirty books on writing, spaaaaace, and the future? Either guess is...
Of Mangoes and Radium: Cooking the Books with Brooke Bolander Macmillan | Barnes & Noble | Indiebound Brooke Bolander first captured our attention with the gorgeous short story “Her Words...
Carmen Maria Machado‘s short stories and essays grab the heart and the ear, the eye and the brain. They seam and sing. They...