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Review: Patrick Kyle invites you to force your way into his work

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Sometimes it’s better to just give yourself to something rather than to seek out its meaning. Not everything has to have one clear meaning,...

Hastings bookstore chain files for bankruptcy; debt to Diamond uncertain

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As suggested by recent rumblings, Hastings, the third largest national bookstore chain after Barnes and Noble and Books-a-Million, hasfiled for bankruptcy following years of...

Interview: Russell and Wheeler talk about the yada yada of the bible in Apocrypha...

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For those who can objectively look at the beliefs of others and even your own, Apocrypha Now from Top Shelf Productions would be the...

Alan Moore’s Secret Q&A Cult Exposed! Part I: You Won’t Believe What They Asked...

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Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Internet, unbeknownst to all but the initiated, there’s an organisation that calls itself the Really Very Serious...

Kate Beaton announces KING BABY pub date, discusses other projects

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We told you a while ago about Kate Beaton's new book King Baby. She's updated her site with the pub date, which is this...

Review: ‘Nod Away’ is human-level science fiction that looks to the big picture

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The first in a projected seven-book science fiction series, Joshua W. Cotter’s Nod Away draws you in with the human drama, but keeps the science...

Review: Barbara Yelin’s ‘Irmina’ shows how history destroys us in little ways

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Quiet and brooding, while still warm and with a great delicacy, Barbara Yelin’s Irmina takes the author’s own discovery of her grandmother’s World War...

The Top Ten graphic novels of the Fall (with previews): Atwood, Sattouf, Pedrosa, Thompson,...

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Twice a year Publishers Weekly previews the next six months of publishing and I assemble the list along with the Top Ten most interesting...

BookCon 2016 was a hit….will there be even more of them in the future?

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Speaking of ReedPOP, BookCon, the festival of literary superstars that owes more to Comic-Con than to a book faire, was held as a one...

Supporting Rosarium Publishing’s Indiegogo is a vote for diversity in comics

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Rosarium Publishing is a small Washington, DC-based indie publisher that's been putting out some fine graphic novels, including Keef Cross's DayBlack, Jennifer Crute’s Jennifer’s Journal amd Micheline Hess’s Malice in Ovenland. As discussed in this Publishers Weekly profile last year, its very much focused on projects by and about POC creators. What I didn't know until I read this Indiegogo campaign is that Rosarium is funded mostly via publisher Bill Campbell's day job and run as print on demand basis. That's real passion and commitment.

Review: Silent parable The Ark is science fiction as sacred text

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This silent, black and white work from French artist Stephane Levallois, and the publisher Humanoids, best known for his storyboard work on films like...

Alan Moore has drawn the cover to his 1 million word novel ‘Jerusalem’

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The cover has just been revealed for Jerusalem, Alan Moore's long, long brewing novel about 6000 years in the life of his hometown Northhampton. There's a good reason writing it took so long. it's one million words long, longer than Moby Dick, longer than Lord of the Rings, longer than the Bible. It's TWICE AS LONG as these behemoths. It's Moore' second novel after Voice of The Fire from 1996, and he considers it one of his life's works. 


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