Stephanie M. Wytovich
Folklore and the Perfect Nightgown with Taisia Kitaiskaia
I first discovered Taisia Kitaiskaia when I read her book Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers. It completely opened...
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Stephanie M. Wytovich
Apr 12, 2021
Growing Alongside White Oleander: A Review
We recently read White Oleander by Janet Fitch in one of the graduate classes I’m teaching this spring, and I was so excited to fall in...
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Stephanie M. Wytovich
Feb 8, 2021
Spending the Weekend With Ghosts
I started reading Gwendolyn Kiste in 2018 and I’ve been steadily devouring her work ever since. Her words are like a storm cloud, like...
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Stephanie M. Wytovich
Jan 1, 2021
Walking in Greenhollow Wood with Emily Tesh
I'm picky when it comes to reading book series, mostly because I have no self-control, so if I find myself in love with a world, that’s...
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Stephanie M. Wytovich
Oct 6, 2020
Happily Buried by Jessica Drake-Thomas
Resurrection is a favorite theme of mine when it comes to storytelling. I just love the intensity of it and how it pushes boundaries and...
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Stephanie M. Wytovich
Sep 22, 2020
McHugh Gives Birth to the Monstrous Feminine in New Poetry Collection: A Complex Accident of Life
If I had to pick my top three favorite books of all time, they would be: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson¸ The...
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Stephanie M. Wytovich
Sep 13, 2020
Into the Forest and All the Way Through: A Review
With everything that’s been happening in 2020, I’ve had a bit of an atypical reading year so far. That’s not to say that I haven’t been...
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Stephanie M. Wytovich
Jul 29, 2020
Exploring the Horror of the Female Domestic: A Review of The Stepford Wives
Oh, how I adore this book. I’ve read it twice now and I’m looking forward to teaching it in the fall and talking about how this novel...
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Stephanie M. Wytovich
Jul 9, 2020
Exploring Area X: A Journey Into the Sublime
When the film adaptation of Annihilation came out in 2018, I was beyond excited, and not just because Natalie Portman was playing the...
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Stephanie M. Wytovich
Jun 19, 2020
Porsha Olayiwola Doesn't Shimmer, She Shines
I love Button Poetry. In fact, they are one of my favorite poetry presses, and I buy from them as much as possible and usually read...
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Stephanie M. Wytovich
May 11, 2020
To Catch a Scream Mid-Mouth: A Review of Saba Syed Razvi’s Heliophobia
I always try to spend a good amount of time in the dealer’s room at conventions, and while I didn’t get as much book time as I would have...
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Stephanie M. Wytovich
May 4, 2020
Wonder, Mischief, and Whimsy in Clive Barker's Abarat
I’m a big Clive Barker fan, and I credit him to being one of the authors who made me want to start writing in the first place. The...
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Stephanie M. Wytovich
Apr 4, 2020
Behind Closed Doors, The Grayer Twins Wait.
This semester in the Western Connecticut State University MFA program, I’m teaching David Mitchell’s novel, Slade House. We’ve been...
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Stephanie M. Wytovich
Mar 26, 2020
Opening Doors, Discovering Worlds: A Review of Seanan McGuire's Come Tumbling Down
I’ve made it no secret that one of—if not my absolute—favorite book series is by Seanan McGuire. Her Wayward Children series is the...
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Stephanie M. Wytovich
Feb 27, 2020
Regret or Something More Animal: Book Review
When I saw that Clash Books was publishing a collection of poetry by Heather Bell, I was immediately excited, so excited in fact, that I...
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Stephanie M. Wytovich
Jan 24, 2020
HIDING BODIES WITH SAMANTHA KOLESNIK
The cover for True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik grabbed me by the eyes and dragged me to Amazon, where I quickly purchased the book. I...
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Stephanie M. Wytovich
Dec 31, 2019
Love, Knives, and a High Body Count: That's What Sisters Are Made of.
I’ve had My Sister, The Serial Killer my Oyinkan Braithwaite on my TBR list since it came out in 2017, and by chance, I saw it at Half...
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Stephanie M. Wytovich
Dec 18, 2019
Dancing Barefoot with Patti Smith
For me, reading Patti Smith is a spiritual, enlightening experience, and I know that sounds like a tall order, but her words and music...
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Stephanie M. Wytovich
Oct 30, 2019
In this Garden of Butterflies
I recently read Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R....
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Stephanie M. Wytovich
Sep 12, 2019
Tea, Sympathy, and The Witches of New York
One book that I had on my TBR list for far too long was The Witches of New York by Ami McKay. I made this one a priority last month and...
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