Sep
03
Personal Canons: Lesley Nneka Arimah
A Guest Feature by Innocent Chizaram Ilo
4 min read
Personal Canons
I want to celebrate — and invite my readers to celebrate — the works that shaped us for the better. The bits of Personal Canon that showed us what genre fiction is capable of, what it can be, who it can welcome. I want to know what you all read when you were young. I want to know who made you into the reader and writer you are today.
Personal Canons ran from August through December 2021.
Sep
01
Personal Canons: Abhorsen
In which Mogget teaches me how to live
4 min read
Aug
26
Personal Canons: There Is No Universal Canon
A Guest Feature by Aidan Moher
5 min read
Aug
18
Personal Canons: The Books That Hate Us
A Guest Feature by Alex Acks
5 min read
Aug
14
Personal Canons: The Thief of Always
“The great gray beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive. Here he was, buried
in the belly of that smothering
4 min read
Aug
11
Personal Canons: Dealing With Dragons
Dealing With Dragons is the first book in Patricia C. Wrede’s Enchanted Forest
Chronicles. On the surface, the story
5 min read
Aug
04
The Books That Got Us Here
The genre fiction community has a great fondness for familiar arguments.
Personally, I find that there’s something strangely comforting
3 min read