Conner Reed
Reviews Editor at Publishers Weekly
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3 weeks ago |
publishersweekly.com | Conner Reed
Stephen Fry’s reference pool runs deep. While discussing the enduring appeal of Greek mythology on Zoom from his office in London, the British entertainer constructs a continuum from Friedrich Nietzsche to E.M. Forster without blinking an eye. Then he hopes aloud that he hasn’t “gotten all Jordan Peterson” while musing that the recent rise in Greek and Roman study might have something to do with the freedom it offers from contemporary identity politics.
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2 months ago |
publishersweekly.com | Conner Reed
Throughout his 25-year career, bestselling horror novelist Stephen Graham Jones has mixed with a mélange of demons, including zombies (in Zombie Bake-Off), werewolves (Mongrels), and good old-fashioned serial killers (I Was a Teenage Slasher). But for a long time, he steered clear of vampires. In the grand scheme of monster lore, Jones says, bloodsuckers get off too easily. The gothic creatures have, according to the author, accumulated a lot of “junk DNA” since the days of Bram Stoker.
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Dec 17, 2024 |
publishersweekly.com | Conner Reed
In the Filipino crime writer’s new story collection, Accidents Happen (Soho Crime, Mar.), characters search for justice in the Philippines. What drew you to crime fiction? The first job I had out of university was for a government intelligence agency.
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Dec 6, 2024 |
publishersweekly.com | Conner Reed
Top 10Bibliophobia: A MemoirSarah Chihaya. Random House, Feb. 4 ($29, ISBN 978-0-593-59472-8)Literary critic Chihaya reflects on the books that carried her through her adolescence as a Japanese American girl in the white Ohio suburbs, from Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye to Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables. Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever ToldJeremy Atherton Lin.
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Dec 6, 2024 |
publishersweekly.com | Conner Reed
Top 10All the Other Mothers Hate MeSarah Harman. Putnam, Mar. 11 ($29, ISBN 978-0-593-85146-3)A retired pop star must defend her 10-year-old son when one of his classmates goes missingand suspicion falls on him. The Dark MaestroBrendan Slocumb. Doubleday, May 13 ($29, ISBN 978-0-593-68761-1)A cello prodigy from the Washington, D.C., projects is forced into witness protection after his drug dealer father informs on his cartel bosses.
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wrote about s2 of white lotus for @jacobin (and ended up cutting the section about fassbinder, sorry to my fans)
The second season of “The White Lotus,” HBO’s propulsive satire, had sex on the brain more than anything else. But it never lost sight of the razor-sharp class critique that also animated season one. https://t.co/NmvXjDbY3B
i have just seen Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, and i will say: between this and Wendell & Wild, it's a huge year for leftist stop-motion feature films made in Portland, Oregon that are completely insane
november is amazing because it’s a whole month dedicated to feeling weird at night