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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Tod Goldberg and his latest anthology, Eight Very Bad Nights

    Entrevista con un autor: Tod Goldberg

    Tod Goldberg es el autor más vendido del New York Times con más de una docena de libros, incluyendo la galardonada trilogía Gangsterland y Living Dead Girl, finalista del Premio del Libro de Los…

  • Author M. L. Rio and her first novella, Graveyard Shift

    Entrevista con un autor: ML Rio

    ML Rio tiene una maestría en estudios shakespearianos del King's College de Londres y el Shakespeare's Globe, y un doctorado en inglés de la Universidad de Maryland, College Park. Su primera novela,…

  • Translator, Shanna Tan of book Marigold Mind Laundry by Chŏng-ŭn Yun

    Entrevista con la traductora Shanna Tan

    Shanna Tan es una traductora singapurense que trabaja con coreano, chino y japonés. Entre sus traducciones se incluyen "Bienvenidos a la Librería Hyunam-dong" de Hwang Bo-reum y "Lavandería Sonriente…

  • Writer Ryan Love and his debut novel, Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out

    Entrevista con un autor: Ryan Love

    Nacido y criado en la ciudad isleña de Enniskillen, en Irlanda del Norte, Ryan Love es periodista titulado por el NCTJ. Fue el primer editor de espectáculos de Digital Spy y ha escrito para…

  • Performer and writer Kate McKinnon and her debut novel, The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science?

    Entrevista con una autora: Kate McKinnon

    Kate McKinnon es una galardonada actriz y escritora, reconocida mundialmente por su trabajo en cine y televisión. Los jóvenes lectores reconocerán su voz como "Ms. Frizzle" en "El Autobús Mágico…

  • Author Lilliam Rivera and her latest novel, Tiny Threads

    Entrevista con una autora: Lilliam Rivera

    Lilliam Rivera es becaria MacDowell y autora galardonada de ocho obras de ficción: cuatro novelas juveniles, tres libros para jóvenes y una novela gráfica para DC Comics. Sus libros han recibido el…

  • Author Scott Thomas and his latest novel, Midwestern Gothic

    Entrevista con un autor: Scott Thomas

    Scott Thomas es el autor nominado al premio Stoker de Kill Creek, seleccionado por el comité de lectores de la Asociación Americana de Bibliotecas como el mejor libro de terror de 2017, y de Violet…

  • Author Dan Kois and his latest novel, Hampton Heights

    Entrevista con un autor: Dan Kois

    Dan Kois es escritor, editor y podcaster en Slate, donde su trabajo ha sido nominado a dos Premios Nacionales de Revistas y dos Premios del Sindicato de Escritores. Es autor de la novela "Vintage…

  • Author Peng Shepherd and her latest novel, All This & More

    Entrevista con un autor: Peng Shepherd

    Peng Shepherd nació y creció en Phoenix, Arizona, y ha vivido en Pekín, Kuala Lumpur, Londres, Nueva York y Ciudad de México. Su segunda novela, Los Cartógrafos, se convirtió en un éxito de ventas…

  • Author Hildur Knútsdóttir and her latest novel, The Night Guest

    Entrevista con un autor: Hildur Knútsdóttir

    Hildur Knútsdóttir nació en Reikiavik, Islandia, en 1984. Ha vivido en España, Alemania y Taiwán, y estudió literatura y escritura creativa en la Universidad de Islandia. Escribe ficción para adultos…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Narrowboat Summer

    The Narrowboat Summer

    • By: Youngson, Anne
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Eve has spent the last 30 years working for an engineering/manufacturing company managing various projects and climbing the corporate ladder. Suddenly, she has been “released” from her position. She is a corporate scapegoat for systemic problems within her company and, as the only woman at her management level, the seemingly...
  • Cover image for Good Neighbors: A Novel

    Good Neighbors: A Novel

    • By: Langan, Sarah
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The first season of The Twilight Zone in 1960 included an episode written by show creator Rod Serling entitled “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” Serling presented a block of homes, filled with “typical” American families, on a summer evening. There is a bright flash of light, whose origin...
  • Cover image for N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

    N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

    • By: Armour, Jody David
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Jody Armour is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. He studies issues of race and legal decision-making as well as torts and tort reform movements. He also studies and teaches on the intersections of language, the law and ethics. His latest book directly...
  • Cover image for The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne

    The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne

    The year is 1704 and Lady Cecily Kay has returned to London from her husband’s posting as a consul in Smyrna. Upon learning of her imminent return to the British Isles, Cecily sent a letter to Sir Barnaby Mayne, a renowned collector in London with one of the most expansive...
  • Cover image for Hella

    Hella

    • By: Gerrold, David, 1944-
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    David Gerrold is speculative fiction royalty. His career spans six decades, over which he has won the Hugo and the Nebula awards. He has written more than 50 novels, worked on numerous television series and created cultural touchstones like tribbles (from Star Trek) and the Sleestak (from The Land of...
  • Cover image for The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

    The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

    • By: Zapata, Michael
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A pirate, a refugee, two pre-teen boys in love with speculative fiction stories, and two adult men who are friends and are each searching for what seems to be missing in their lives. Over the course of nearly a century, these disparate individuals will orbit the missing manuscript of a...
  • Cover image for The Devil and the Dark Water

    The Devil and the Dark Water

    • By: Turton, Stuart
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In a "locked-room" or "impossible crime" mystery, a crime, or series of crimes, is committed under circumstances that appear, at least initially, impossible for said crime to have been enacted. Those same conditions will also seem to preclude the criminal entering or exiting the crime scene.The first “locked-room” mystery was...
  • Cover image for The Eighth Detective

    The Eighth Detective

    • By: Pavesi, Alex
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In the early 1940s, a Scottish professor of mathematics devises a mathematical definition of the murder mystery story and writes seven provocative stories as proof of his theory. He publishes a journal article regarding his ideas and then self-publishes his seven stories in a small volume, entitled The White Murders.Decades...