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A Black Woman in Science Fiction
I just wanted to take a moment today and talk about Octavia Butler. Maybe you haven’t heard of her. Here is a picture: Octavia Butler was a woman who dared to envision science fiction differently....
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Science Fiction, Which Includes Zombies
A former colleague of mine gave me a copy of a science fiction book the other day. He’s slowly clearing out his shelves–I think he’s afraid that he’s getting old and doesn’t want to leave behind so...
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Men Aren’t Invited; Now What?
A new post from The Guardian called “No Men Allowed: Publisher Accepts Novelist’s ‘Year of Women’ Challenge” was published June 11, 2015. In this article, you can read more about what different...
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July is Women’s History Month!
Welcome to July, which is Women’s History Month in the U.S.! There are lots of interesting books that celebrate these events! July 2, 1979 – The Susan B. Anthony dollar is released July 2, 1937 –...
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Wreckage of Reason II: Back to the Drawing Board
Wreckage of Reason II: Back to the Drawing Board was released by Spuyten Duyvil in 2014. The anthology includes 29 authors from around the globe who use different tools to tell stories and poems. Did I...
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Courting Criminals: The High Stakes World of Highsmith
Margot McGovern asks why readers can’t get enough of Patricia Highsmith’s sinister style of crime. Highsmith is the queen of suspense and one of the great crime writers of the twentieth-century. She’s...
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Hello, Twitter
Today, I finally got a Twitter account. I’m so far behind on social media (mostly because it’s scary) that Twitter will probably be obsolete by the time I master it! You can find me there with the...
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Expectations & Goals at GTL
Hello, readers! I wanted to take a moment a look at what I read in 2015 to see if I am staying true to the goals for my book review site, Grab the Lapels. My goals for Grab the Lapels are: Only review...
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On Being Self-Absorbed
We Tweet our every thought. We put pictures of what we’re eating on Instagram. We post selfies with faces that we don’t really make normally and share them on Facebook. We’re self-absorbed. So, if...
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Defensive Authors
Over the recent winter break between semesters, I decided that one of my goals would be to read more book blogs and literary websites. I’ve found some lovely ones, too, like A Field of Wild Flowers,The...
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