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Good Dog - graphic novel about the life of a stray dog (excerpt)

Here's a preview of Good Dog, Graham Chaffee's beautifully told and illustrated story of a stray dog's life. Graham Chaffee returns to comics and uses a simple, charming story about a stray dog to...

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Interview with author of "The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything... Fast"...

Josh Kaufman is the author of the new book, The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything... Fast. I interviewed him about the art of rapid skill acquisition. Do you find yourself staying interested in...

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"The Walking Dead meets Breaking Bad" - exclusive excerpt of a Fiend, a new...

Here an excerpt from Peter Stenson's new zombie novel, Fiend, which was selected as an Amazon Best Book of the Month, for July. When Chase Daniels first sees the little girl in umbrella socks tearing...

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Tampa - twisted novel of a sociopathic middle-school teacher [excerpt]

Here's a excerpt of Alissa Nutting's new novel, Tampa. In Alissa Nutting’s novel Tampa, Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate...

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Templar: new 480-page graphic novel about the Knights Templar [excerpt]

Enjoy this 28-page preview of Jordan Mechner's new massive graphic novel about the Knights Templar, called Templar. Read Cory's review here. Martin is one of a handful of Templar Knights to escape when...

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Turbulence, action-packed Indian superhero novel [exclusive excerpt]

Enjoy this excerpt from the new novel, Turbulence, by Samit Basu. Aman Sen is smart, young, ambitious and going nowhere. He thinks this is because he doesn't have the right connections -- but then he...

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Weaponized, thriller about a Snowden-type character on the lam [excerpt]

Here's an excerpt from Weaponized, a new thriller by Nicholas Mennuti and David Guggenheim. Kyle West is a wanted man. Having fled the country to escape the false charges filed against himself and his...

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The 1960s high schoolers who started a major pot smuggling empire

Joshua Bearman (who wrote the "Argo" story for Wired that was turned into a terrific movie) has a story in the July 2013 issue of GQ called "Coronado High." Josh told me, "The story is an epic tale...

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Acadia: A New Sci-Fi Novel (Excerpt)

Kate’s alarm went off at six. She stretched, setting off a string of pops in her limbs and back. Frowning, she swung her legs and sat up. Her eyes half-open, she noticed that the usual warmth was...

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Author Kim Newman on his new Anno Dracula novel, Johnny Alucard (plus excerpt)

Johnny Alucard is the fourth book in the Anno Dracula series; the earlier novels are Anno Dracula,The Bloody Red Baron and Dracula Cha Cha Cha -- and the definitive Titan editions include the long...

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A Cold Season - excerpt from a new horror novel

Here's an excerpt from the new horror novel by Alison Littlewood, A Cold Season>. A dark and disturbing tale from a bold new voice in horror writing: After the battlefront death of her husband, a...

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The Secret Lives of Married Women, by Elissa Wald [exclusive excerpt]

Hard Case Crime publishes hardboiled crime fiction by Stephen King, Donald Westlake, James M. Cain, Michael Crichton, Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins, and other greats. Here's an exclusive excerpt...

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Growth Hacker Marketing, by Ryan Holiday (excerpt)

Ryan Holiday is a media strategist who started his career as an assistant to Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power and was the director of marketing at American Apparel for many years. Last...

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Book excerpt from Crazy 4 Cult movie art show

Crazy 4 Cult 2 is a brand new collection of cult movie-themed artwork from Gallery 1988's annual show. This book features amazing art inspired by movies such as A Clockwork Orange, The Shining,...

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The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets

The Simpsons is arguably the most successful television show in history. Inevitably, its global appeal and enduring popularity have prompted academics (who tend to overanalyze everything) to identify...

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Michael Crichton and the Doppleganger (plus exclusive excerpt from early...

Calling Michael Crichton multi-talented is like calling a Stradivarius a fiddle. The man graduated summa cum laude from Harvard, he lectured in anthropology at Cambridge, he was a doctor, he wrote...

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Much Loved - stuffed animal portraits by Mark Nixon

Ted | Age: 24 | Height: 9" | Belongs To: Helen Lyons Much Loved started as a very simple idea: to photograph some "loved to bits" teddy bears for an exhibition in my studio, which happily has a...

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Shovel Ready: Excerpt from hardboiled dystopian thriller by Adam Sternbergh

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Space alien sex art: excerpt from Strange Attractors

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The Wrong Quarry, by Max Allan Collins: exclusive excerpt

Sally and I had agreed to meet by the front entrance at eight, but I was a little late. My appointment with Mr. Jacobs had been the last slotted, and ran over some. I found her just outside, smoking....

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Snowpiercer: science fiction graphic novel about a train that carries all of...

Titan Comics has released an English translation of Snowpiercer, the acclaimed French graphic novel that inspired the new movie from Joon-ho Bong. Volume 1: The Escape was released today (January 29,...

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The Art of Ian Miller [exclusive excerpt]

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King of the Weeds: the final Mike Hammer novel

CHAPTER ONE When you suddenly realize you’re about to be killed, all your mind does is tell you that you were dumb. You had the experience, you had the physical abilities, you had the animal instincts....

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Chapters one and two of Charlie Fletcher's The Oversight

Yesterday, I reviewed book one of The Oversight, the first spectacular volume in a new historical fantasy series by Charlie Fletcher. As I wrote then, it's "a dark and glinting book set in Victorian...

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Jo Walton's "My Real Children" [book excerpt]

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Koko Takes a Holiday

A few hours later, Archimedes rouses Koko with a triple-shot cup of hydroponic espresso on a saucer. Archimedes is dressed in a red cotton macramé thong and black rubber sandals and gushes a non-stop...

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Modern-day US civil war depicted in "A Better World"

Here's an exclusive excerpt from Marcus Sakey's A Better World, the second book in the Brilliance saga. In the Brilliance saga, since 1980, 1% of the world has been born with gifts we'd only dreamed...

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Dr. Mütter's Marvels: intrigue and innovation at the dawn of modern medicine

Best known today for his namesake museum, Philadelphia's (in)famous Mütter Museum, 19th century doctor Thomas Dent Mütter first made a name for himself as a young surgical wunderkind. Specializing in...

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Donald Trump: the poor little rich boy

There are, certainly, compensations to being Donald Trump. You’re fabulously wealthy; you have a lifetime pass to help yourself to younger and younger wives, even as you get older and older — a...

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Read an exclusive excerpt from "An Internet In Your Head: A New Paradigm For...

A few months back, I shared a piece from neuroscientist (and longtime BB reader!) Dan Graham about research into the language we use to discuss and understand the human brain. For years, scientists...

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