
Olivia Waite
Author and Columnist at The New York Times
Award-winning romance and sff author, New York Times romance fiction columnist. Repped by @millercallihan. Half agony, half hope, bisexual. She/her.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Olivia Waite
The prolific fantasy author, best known for his Discworld series, infused his writing with empathy and humor. Here's where to start. Credit... Jesse Wild/Future, via Getty Images Terry Pratchett spent more than half of his six decades on Earth writing Discworld, a sprawling fantasy series where, among many other threads, Death begins as a villain, drifts into heroism and ends as something very near to a friend. This is not because Pratchett was insensitive to the tragedy of death.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Olivia Waite
Our columnist on the month’s best new releases.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Olivia Waite
Our columnist on the month's best new releases. Credit... Michela Buttignol Despite romance's reputation as light comfort reading, the genre has a bass line of chaos pulsing through it - the distinction being that romance presents chaos as survivable, even if your entire world is upended.
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1 month ago |
reactormag.com | Olivia Waite
Note: Spoilers for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the Imperial Radch trilogy will, obviously, abound. So it seems only fair to spoil a little bit of the following essay itself, and tell you that I’m going to start by saying one of the most stupefyingly obvious things someone can say. It’s going somewhere, I promise. The thing about space is that tea doesn’t grow there. Tea grows on Earth.
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2 months ago |
nytimes.com | Olivia Waite
Our critic on the month's best new releases. We all sometimes have to put up shields between ourselves and the rest of the world. But safety leaves us solitary - we need love and understanding, and both those things require us to be open and vulnerable. The characters in this month's romances are unusually closed-off, leading to uncommonly glorious endings when they finally drop those shields.
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