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Haunting of Hundreds Hill: on Sarah Waters’ latest

My appreciation of Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger is up at NPR. Here’s an excerpt: For a writer so gifted at conjuring worlds in which unspoken longings seem to manifest themselves as otherworldly phenomena, British novelist Sarah Waters is surprisingly dismissive of her own superstitions, which she sees as symptomatic of her lower-middle-class origins. Her grandparents worked as servants, her . . .

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Letsnotgo.com

China Miéville, on the Buffy remake: “How about we don’t go and see it and don’t talk about it incessantly?… [I]t’s just shit.” (Via.)

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Granta fiction

Granta’s new fiction issue includes work by John Banville, Amy Bloom, Ha Jin, Helen Simpson, & others.

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