In A.E. Copenhaver’s debut novel, an overwhelmed environmentalist named Cara finds unexpected—and ethically questionable—relief in her boyfriend’s carefree mother Millie. My Days of Dark Green Euphoria is simultaneously a wild ride of an adventure tale and an important exploration of eco-anxiety in our modern world. I spoke with A.E. Copenhaver about what led her to […]
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The internet is difficult to describe. It is a porous thing, multifaceted, influencing and infiltrating every aspect of our lives. We enter and exit it potentially hundreds of times a day, each time our thumbs bring us back to Instagram or a notification buzzes in our pocket. Many of its uses are mundane, but it
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Ashley interviewed Ashley M. Coleman about her debut novel, GOOD MORNING, LOVE. In the interview, Ashley asked about world building in the music industry, writing a meaningful boss who is a Black woman, developing characters with dreams and insecurities, writing Black men who are vulnerable and evolving, and her platform for BIPOC writers, Permission to
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I never intended to write about the Amber Heard/Johnny Depp defamation lawsuit. With the media circus that occurred around the trial—the pile-on against Heard made up of TikTok memes and Twitter threads, death threats and other forms of denigration because she didn’t fit the mold of the “perfect victim”—I didn’t want to touch this topic
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Everyone in your life is temporary. Ghosting is defined as “the practice of ending a personal relationship with someone by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication.” Everyone you come across in life is not going to have the communication capability to articulate how they feel. I see people upset that the person they
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You may not know this, but Renee and Ashley are huge sports fans. They chat about women’s sports, why they love them, pay discrepancy, and the particularly disturbing story of WNBA star Brittney Griner’s arrest in Russia, where she has been detained for over 100 days. Resources Mentioned: LFG – documentary about the US Women’s
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TW: domestic abuse, IPV As a reader, I love to stumble upon books that defy genre, books that combine all of my favorite genres into one delicious mishmash of literary goodness. I love to read memoirs that play with form and chronology. Works of horror where the supernatural takes a back seat. Horror that comes
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Summary Nina Dean encompasses what every thirty-something woman would deem successful. She is a published author living in a luxurious apartment in north London and has incredible relationships with her friends, family and even her ex-boyfriend (Weird or not weird?). The only part of Nina’s life that feels incomplete is having a partner. She has
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Rah sits down with Appalachian Occultist, East S.M. to discuss her novel, Mercy’s Quest, scheduled to be released on the Summer Solstice! During the discussion they talk about the Summer Solstice, occult fiction, travel, and tarot. If you have ever been interested in witches, the occult, or tarot- this might just be the episode for
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Background Edited by prolific author Zoraida Cordova, Reclaim the Stars is a short story collection that features 17 tales by Latinx writers. The book is split into three sections, featuring sci-fi (“To the Stars”), low fantasy (“The Magical Now”), and high fantasy (“Other Times, Other Realms”) stories with diverse characters of all kinds of genders
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CW: sexual assault, childhood marriage Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson reminded me of Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty yet is incredibly unique, emotional, and gripping. In Black Cake, siblings Byron and Benny meet to receive an inheritance after their mother, Eleanor, died. Benny has been estranged from the family for years. Byron and Benny
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Mariquita talks with Isabel Cañas about her debut novel, The Hacienda, a terrifying and thrilling Postcolonial Gothic set in 1820s Mexico. They also touch on what makes a strong female protagonist, the legacy of colonialism on generations of indigenous people, the enduring role religion and the caste system have in oppression, and just how all
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