Stephen King’s IT Parade, Week 6: Does This Book Have an Ending?
Stephen King’s IT Parade is author/editor Daniel Kraus’s 10-week journal of re-reading King’s classic. Join him on this long (very long) journey, if you dare. CHAPTERS 13-16 We’re grinding down a bit...
View ArticleStephen King’s IT Parade, Week 7: Are Kids More Dangerous Than Adults?
Stephen King’s IT Parade is author/editor Daniel Kraus’s 10-week journal of re-reading King’s classic. Join him on this long (very long) journey, if you dare. CHAPTER 17-18 & THE FOURTH INTERLUDE...
View ArticleWe Read Dead People: MOONBOG
Welcome to We Read Dead People, where authors Stephanie Kuehn (Charm & Strange, When I Am Through with You) and Daniel Kraus (Rotters, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch) read a novel from the...
View ArticleStephen King’s IT Parade, Week 8: Wait, Does This Book Have a Plot?
Stephen King’s IT Parade is author/editor Daniel Kraus’s 10-week journal of re-reading King’s classic. Join him on this long (very long) journey, if you dare. CHAPTERS 19-20 Boy, the action is...
View ArticleStephen King’s IT Parade, Week 9: Are We Really Going to Talk about the...
Stephen King’s IT Parade is author/editor Daniel Kraus’s 10-week journal of re-reading King’s classic. Join him on this long (very long) journey, if you dare. CHAPTERS 21-22 Way, way back in Ye Olde...
View ArticleStephen King’s IT Parade, Week 10: What Is the Ecstatic Truth?
Stephen King’s IT Parade is author/editor Daniel Kraus’s 10-week journal of re-reading King’s classic. Join him on this long (very long) journey, if you dare. Dutch edition CHAPTER 23-EPILOGUE “What...
View ArticleThe 31 Horror Films in 31 Days Challenge: 2017
Booklist staff meeting. Wow, 2017 has been A YEAR, am I right? That’s why, even though this is the ninth year of the 31 Horror Films 31 Days challenge (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016),...
View Article31 Horror Films in 31 Days: The Crud-Cracking Conclusion
The 3 stages of horror-movie binging. The record of this, the ninth year of the #31HorrorFilms31Days challenge, shall one day be carved into mausoleum walls. From the usual pile of writhing, sobbing,...
View ArticleThe State of the YA Novel: 2017
This article, the last in our series celebrating #50YearsofYA, originally appeared in the December 1 issue of Booklist. After countless interviews, features, guest essays, live events, and...
View ArticleTop 20 Youth Novel Covers 2017
The usual caveats: I am an individual human being with my own tastes, often inscrutable to even myself; I probably saw 80 zillion book covers this year and forgot 70 zillion of them; I didn’t have the...
View ArticleWe Read Dead People: HEADS
Welcome to We Read Dead People, where authors Stephanie Kuehn (Charm & Strange, When I Am Through with You) and Daniel Kraus (Rotters, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch) read a novel from the...
View ArticleAnother Look at Choose Your Own Adventure Books
It is one of my most vivid memories of reading. I’m eight years old and in the family van, an ugly beige behemoth lacking air-conditioning. This is relevant because it’s summer, and the van, already...
View ArticleWe Read Dead People: BRAINCHILD
Welcome to We Read Dead People, where authors Stephanie Kuehn (Charm & Strange, When I Am Through with You) and Daniel Kraus (The Shape of Water, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch) read a novel...
View ArticleThe 31 Horror Films in 31 Days Challenge: 2018
When I made the fateful decision to watch 31 horror films in 31 days back in Ye Olde 2009, they told me, “You cannot do this.” They told me, “It is not healthy.” They told me, “Hold still so we can...
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