Tag: jonathan lethem

• Most influential authors…

  I keep a record of what I read in LibraryThing. I haven’t recorded every book I’ve ever read, because I don’t remember (boy, I wish I had started keeping a list at the age of 5 or something). But I have recorded almost 1,200 books, so I thought I’d take a look at my authors…

  Shannon Turlington

  March 17, 2015

  Notebook

  Christopher Moore, Edward Gorey, Francine Prose, Fred Chappell, Influence, Jane Austen, jonathan lethem, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kim Stanley Robinson, LibraryThing, Lists, Margaret Atwood, Michael Chabon, Neil Gaiman, Nick Hornby, Octavia Butler, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, Tom Perrotta, Ursula K Le Guin, Writers

• What is speculative fiction?

  The kind of fiction I like to read the most, and that I tend to focus on here, falls under the broad umbrella of “speculative fiction.” I’ve never been entirely comfortable with the traditional genre labels of science fiction, fantasy and horror. The definitions that are most often applied to these genres seem so limiting,…

  Shannon Turlington

  April 11, 2008

  Notebook

  Apocalyptic literature, Cormac McCarthy, Fantasy, Fiction, Genres, Horror, jonathan lethem, Kazuo Ishiguro, Neil Gaiman, Science fiction, Speculative fiction