Author name: Monica

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Why you should read Riders of the Purple Wage, and also, why you might not want to.

Original Illustration by Nerillo Art. Keywords: lyrical, absurd, profane. I skipped around the literary canon quite a bit as an undergraduate. I swooned over […]

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Oh, the horror – in space!

Book Lists / by Monica

If you work in a public library, then you know that making book recommendations is one of the most enjoyable and, sadly, rare reference

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Illustration of a single-wide mobile home from the 1970s that is dripping blood.

This is not my beautiful house.

Book Lists / by Monica

I’m a sucker for the classic gothic haunted house trope. Maybe it’s because I grew up in cramped single-wide trailers, but the idea of

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