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#slatepitches

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Matt Ruff

For those of you seeking a distraction from the election coverage, Slate Book Review just posted “The Funniest Living Writers Choose the Funniest Books in the World.” It’s a literary daisy chain: They asked Maria Semple, whose novel Today Will … Continue reading →

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Everfair

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Matt Ruff

My friend Nisi Shawl’s amazing new novel Everfair arrives in bookstores today. It’s a steampunk novel set in an alternate history where Congolese natives and their allies use steam-powered dirigibles (“aircanoes”) to fight back against the Belgian soldiers of King … Continue reading →

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Talking with Victor LaValle about Lovecraft

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Matt Ruff

The same day Lovecraft Country first appeared in book stores, Tor.com Books published Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom, which takes H.P. Lovecraft’s short story “The Horror at Red Hook” and retells it from the point of view of … Continue reading →

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For the weekend: Langston Hughes’ playlist

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Matt Ruff

At Wednesday night’s reading at Third Place Books, an audience member asked me about the music I listen to while I’m writing, which reminded me of something I’d come across during my research for Lovecraft Country. In the July 3, … Continue reading →

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The German translation of The Mirage is now out in paperback

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Matt Ruff

While I was finishing up Lovecraft Country, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag released the paperback edition of the German translation of The Mirage. I got my complimentary author’s copies in the mail yesterday, and they look great. (The cover design, by Michał … Continue reading →

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Thoughts about The Hunger Games

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Matt Ruff

I’d been resisting reading The Hunger Games, because the last time I tried a novel with this much hype behind it, an albino monk left my suspension of disbelief hemorrhaging uncontrollably. But with the movie coming out, Lisa and I … Continue reading →

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