Listen Up! April 2022 on Poured Over
We have a very, very cool lineup of episodes this month, including our 100th, featuring Jennifer Egan and The Candy…
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8 Books to Read if You Loved The Testaments, September’s B&N Book Club Selection
The Barnes & Noble Book Club selection for September, Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, picks up more than 15 years after…
An Interview with Crypt Quest/Space Battles: A Play-Your-Way Book Author Gabe Soria
What were you like as a kid? What was your connection to video games? I assume I was like most…
5 of the Least Supervised Children in Literature
There’s nothing like parental supervision to quash potential adventure. That’s why there’s a rich tradition of unsupervised children in literature.…
Summer Book Club Picks
It’s summer time and the living is easy—at least for your kids. But maybe not as much for you, if…
Examining Technology in the Apocalypse: Station Eleven
End of the world books, like their counterparts in alternative history section, extrapolate all the factors necessary to answer that most basic of…
It’s the End of the World As We Know It, But These Books Feel Fine
Tomorrow Tommy Wallach’s We All Looked Up will make impact in bookstores everywhere, crashing onto shelves in an epic explosion. Well. Okay,…
What to Read Next If You Liked This is Where I Leave You, Station Eleven, The Drop, The Best of Me, or The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
It’s no surprise that Jonathan Tropper’s This is Where I Leave You was made into a movie. Already, the book reads like…
What to Read Next if You Liked What I Know for Sure, The Bone Clocks, We Are Not Ourselves, Personal or What If?
What I Know for Sure, by Oprah Winfrey, collects pearls of wisdom and life lessons from more than 14 years…
Station Eleven: Dispatches From the End of the World
Just when you thought you’d tired of postapocalyptic fiction, someone comes along and dazzles you with an intimate portrait of…
5 Girl-Powered Sci-Fi and Fantasy Releases You’ll Love
My favorite thing George R.R. Martin has ever said (barring the moment he exclaims, “Here comes Benjen Stark!”) is his…