![]() Until there’s only one thing we know for sure. With every lie we uncover, every secret we expose, the danger mounts. He’s sweet and quirky, but there’s a darkness in him just waiting to be unleashed. Bonded over a common goal, he introduces me to a world of after-hours clubs, danger, and violence.Īnd Vincent, the quiet new guy nobody seems to see except m e. War, heir to a biker gang throne and searching for the man who left his mother in a coma. Older and more experienced, he still remembers me as the neglected child he once saved. To catch a killer, I put aside my life of money and luxury and take over the running of Psychos, a dive bar in the seedy underbelly of Saint View.īut Psychos delivers more than I ever could have bargained for and three men I never saw coming. ![]() Not when his murderer is still out there. ![]() A childhood code only he and I knew, and one that had a single, clear meaning behind it. Those were the last words my brother said to me before he was shot execution style. “Do you want some Goldfish crackers, Bliss?” ![]()
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![]() ![]() It was weird, the ending didn’t make any sense, and it was so boring that I almost fell asleep. The first time I watched The Double, I thought it was complete nonsense. I actually saw the movie first, which inspired me to read the book, so I’ll be discussing them in that order. The novella was adapted into a movie of the same name, which was released in 2011 and stars Jesse Eisenberg. If it doesn’t sound familiar, you aren’t alone: his writing style is notorious for being dense and tiresome to read, meaning you won’t find his works on any coffee tables. If the name sounds familiar, you’ve probably read Crime and Punishment, arguably one of his most popular works. ![]() The Double is a short novella originally written by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in 1846. ![]() ![]() To effectively say: maybe that’s one rendering of Appalachia, but here’s another one. But after watching people migrate towards that book as an explainer for Appalachia and Appalachian people, despite the fact that it never acknowledged the existence of queer folks, Black folks, immigrants, or progressives in Appalachia, and really using this culture of poverty rhetoric to describe White Appalachians, I felt compelled to write a counter-narrative. ![]() Prior to the publication of that book, I’d always viewed my experience as anomalous, and as something I’d spend my life explaining to people. It really wasn’t until 2016, when a certain senator from Ohio published a certain political screed masquerading as memoir, that I started to try to write about my experiences growing up at the intersection of queer, Desi, and Appalachian. I studied creative writing in undergrad, and then didn’t write for a long time afterwards because of family blowback around my senior thesis. NA: I definitely did not know that I was working towards a memoir. I guess a general and a specific question there: did you have a concept of this kind of memoir in your mind when you started, or were you writing essays and saw that there was some connective tissue in them, or did the writing project come about in some other way? ![]() Dave Housley: Since a lot of our readers are writers themselves, I’d like to start off talking a bit about the book’s path to publication. ![]() ![]() ![]() But, up until Nona I would have argued that it was worth it. ![]() I am not being obtuse this series is really, really confusing. We started at lesbian necromancers in an escape room, jumped to a god walking back a self-lobotomy, and now we are watching a young girl in a dystopian security state do some dog walking. With every new entry, the plot of this series becomes harder to explain. On the other hand, Nona The Ninth reads like a blatant cash grab that uses its saccharin-sweet story to distract from the fact that there feels like there is about 50 pages of content in this 400+ page book. Her incredible prose and outstanding imagination make everything she touches wholly unique. On the one hand, Muir is one of the most talented authors around right now. Nona The Ninth, the third book in The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir, has a complicated existence. I find myself in a difficult position when it comes to picking a score for today’s book. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is said that all good things must come to an end and so it proves with the incremental improvements that had been occurring as we made our way through the Children Of The Corn franchise. When the children of Grand Island, including Grace’s siblings, become sick with a mysterious fever and fall under the spell of the returning preacher who is ready to take back an earthly form. This time, it’s Josiah, a gifted preacher whose growth was stunted by his guardians in order to keep his powers intact and later buried alive by the town when he murdered his guardians. Unfortunately, she’s not the only person returning to Grand Island, as something evil is once again lurking in the cornfields. The film: Grace (Naomi Watts) has returned to her hometown in Nebraska to take care of her mother, June (Karen Black), who is suffering from agoraphobia. ![]() |