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Recommended Reading List: August, 2012

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in free nonfiction, On Writing, Recommended Reading , AE Hotchner, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Christen Anne Kelly, Darrell James, Dedra Say Mitchell, Dennis Lehane, Doctor Who, Elizabeth Hand, Emily Nussbaum, Harry Bosch, Janice Law, John Allen, Lisa Kleypas, Marc Parent, Mary Balogh, Michael Connelly, Mike Cooper, On Wisconsin, PTSD, Ray Bradbury, Runners World, The New Yorker, The Ritz Paris, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vanity Fair, William Gibson | 8 Comments »

I read a lot in August, but at the beginning of the month I felt like I was paying for my successful July. A book I really looked forward to by a writer new to me turned out to be a slog. Characters I didn’t like saying disagreeable things about other characters I didn’t like. [...]

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Recommended Reading List: December 2011

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in featured, free nonfiction, On Writing, Recommended Reading , A. Scott Berg, Agents, Alfred Lubrano, Annie Reed, Asimov's, Barry Malzberg, Bruce McAllister, Christen Anne Kelly, Esquire, Hemingway, James Kwak, James Wolcott, Jenny Price, John Allen, Ken Liu, Lawrence Block, Luke Dittrich, Maxwell Perkins, Michael Connelly, Mystery Scene Magazine, On Wisconsin, Robert Reed, Scott Meredith, Sheila Williams, Simon Johnson, Softball, UW-Madison alumni magazine, Vanity Fair | 9 Comments »

With this, I’ll be caught up on all of my Recommended Reading lists for 2011. January’s should post in the first 10 days of February. I’ll have one more overall reading post, a numbers post, in a week or two, and then I can put 2011 behind me. Here’s the list, with everything on it [...]

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Recommended Reading: February 2011

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch Posted in featured, free nonfiction, On Writing, Recommended Reading , Adam Gopnik, Annie Reed, Christine Fennessy, Christopher Hitchens, Dean Wesley Smith, Deborah Smith, Denise Little, Elif Batuman, Glenda Gill, Greg Lawrence, John Allen, John Helfers, John Lahr, Joyce Carol Oates, On Wisconsin Magazine, Pat Conroy, Robert Crais, Toni Bentley, University of Wisconsin-Madison | 3 Comments »

I got a lot of reading done in February, and I’m not sure how. I was writing every minute I could and I also co-taught a workshop with Dean, Denise Little, and John Helfers. Did lots of reading there, but you won’t see those stories until they hit print. Very good stories they were too. [...]

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