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The Haunting of Hill House

October 23, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Four visitors arrive at a foreboding house in the country, intending to explore the rumors of the supernatural on the premises. But the house brings more than they bargained for and drives them right to the brink of sanity… or maybe even further… The Review: Recently, I’ve read some interesting pieces about the difference between terror and horror and I realize that I like terror more – and find terror all the more frightening. Essentially, terror is the anticipation, […]

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Literature • Tags: A Visit to October Country, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Penguin Horror, Reviews, Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

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Selected Shorts: Welcome to Night Vale

March 19, 2015 by Drew

Cecil Baldwin reads from Will Eno / glows from his forehead third-eye If you’re an internet person – and, if you’re reading this, chances are good that you’re an internet person – you’ve heard of Welcome to Night Vale. The weird little-podcast-that-could following the goings on of a distinctly odd little community in the Southwestern United States has become a bonafide sensation: #1 podcast on iTunes, a touring live show, and a forthcoming novel from the creators. If you haven’t listened (or […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Carlos the Scientist, Cecil Baldwin, Dylan Marron, Events, Fantasy, Features, Horror, Jeffrey Fink, John Darnielle, Joseph Cranor, Mara Wilson, Matthew Love, New York Neo-Futurists, Night Vale, Performance, Reading, Recaps, Sci-Fi, Selected Shorts, Shirley Jackson, Short Stories, Symphony Space, The Mountain Goats, Theater, Weird, Welcome to Night Vale, Will Eno, WNYC

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2014 – The RB Lit Review

December 31, 2014 by Drew

And so, friends, we come to the end of another year.  So many books read, so much to recap – so let’s dive in. VITAL STATS, YEAR FOUR: Books Read: 137 Pages Read: 48,900 (an exact round number – weiiiird) Average Rating: 3.89 (a definite drop from the last two years, although this may reflect a somewhat broader scope of reading? or sharper critical thinking? who knows.) Highest Rating(s): – 6 out of 5 Jeff VanderMeer’s The Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance) was maybe the […]

Categories: Features • Tags: A Visit From The Goon Squad, Acceptance, Annihilation, Authority, Bad Books, Broken Monsters, China Miéville, Dani Lencioni, David Mitchell, DC Pierson, Edgar Cantero, Embassytown, Eric Setiawan, FSG Originals Series, good Books, Harper Perennial, Haruki Murakami, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Jeff Vandermeer, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Egan, Junot Diaz, Kafka on the Shore, Karen Russell, Katherine Faw Morris, Lauren Beukes, Lena Dunham, Meg Wolitzer, Murakami 2014, Nick Harkaway, Not That Kind of Girl, Of Bees and Mist, Olive Editions, Parties, Shirley Jackson, So Many Damn Books, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, The Bone Clocks, The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never had to, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The City and the City, The Interestings, The Marriage Plot, The Morning News, The People in the Trees, The Southern Reach Trilogy, The Supernatural Enhancements, The Tournament of Books 2014, Tigerman, Vonnegut 201x, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Woolf 2015, year in review, You Should Have Known, Young God

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