Christopher Barzak

Category: Books

  • Pre-viewing, pre-ordering, pre-mourning

    There have been lots of pre-reviews of this anthology popping up in the past month or two, all of them positive. I’m happy to be included in this review as one of the reviewer’s “favorites”. If you go to Amazon.com right now, you can pre-order the book at an extremely reduced price. Incidentally, this story…

  • Holiday

    Last minute shoppers, looking for a good book to give at the holidays?  Take a chance on M. Rickert’s new short story collection, Holiday.  Mary Rickert’s stories are absolutely full of wonder and frightening circumstances, sometimes creepy and other times sad or joyful.  She’s one of the best short story writers out there, period, in…

  • One for Sorrow the film?

    I’ve been sort of running around like crazy today, as my friend and former editor, Juliet Ulman, sent me a photograph she took of her copy of Elle magazine’s September issue.  It’s a photograph of the contributor’s page, where the photographer and film director Carter Smith is asked what he anticipates doing this fall, and…

  • Wonders of the Invisible World

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  • Backlist Book’s review

    Hey, check out this cool video review of The Love We Share Without Knowing, by Fred Van Patten, owner of Backlist Books in Massillon, Ohio, where I’ll be signing books tomorrow, June 19th, from 1-3 PM.  Come out if you’re in the area!

  • Q&A

    Joseph Mallozzi hosts a book of the month club over at his very popular blog.  This month The Love We Share Without Knowing is the selection.  Joe posted a great response to the book and then opened the comments section up for questions from his fellow readers.  Today my responses went up.  We talked about…

  • Next year: a reprise

    Following on the heels of the Beastly Bride anthology mentioned in my last post, fabulous editor Ellen Datlow announced on her blog today that one of her and Terri Windling’s new anthologies has been completed and turned in to their editor at HarperCollins: Teeth Table of Contents Introduction by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow Things…

  • Beastly indeed

    I mentioned last year that the newest volume of the mythic fiction series edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling would be released this coming spring, and here we are, a couple of days after its release date.  The Beastly Bride.  This is a great anthology of fiction for young adults and adults alike.  Here’s…

  • Gaslight Dogs

    Dear internet drifting jellyfish, Have you read any books by author Karin Lowachee?  Well, if not, now is your chance to start by picking up her newest novel, released just yesterday by Orbit Books.  It’s called Gaslight Dogs, and it sounds like a wonderful fantasy novel.  Here’s a description: At the edge of the known…

  • Dear Reader

    There are so many reasons for writing.  For me, I take pleasure in design for the sake of design.  The perfect melding–or even if not perfect, the interesting melding–of various materials into a shape that catches the eye of the mind as the words flare during the process of interpretation and become fireworks, emotional surges,…