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Category: Horror Fiction

Finalists for the 2021 International Booker Prize

May 20, 2021 ~ The Longest Chapter ~ Leave a comment

I wasn't paying attention, and then I was, when the six books in the running for this year's International Booker Prize jumped out at me on social media with their surprising variety. It's the stuff that astonishes. Take a look.

Five books in these days of distraction

March 21, 2020March 30, 2020 ~ The Longest Chapter ~ 2 Comments

How to read when my concentration is shot? I'm channeling Anne Lamott. Also, you'll find here novels by Shirley Jackson, TaraShea Nesbit, Alison Moore, Anne Enright, and Mick Herron.

Books I’m recommending

November 14, 2019 ~ The Longest Chapter ~ 2 Comments

I've captured here the novels I mentioned on NPR member station WOSU All Sides Weekend Books that aired November 8, 2019.

Classic horror with an evil twin

October 29, 2019 ~ The Longest Chapter ~ Leave a comment

Thomas Tryon's "The Other" unnerved me the first time I read it when I was 16. It still creeps me out.

The Longest Chapter is written by book critic Kassie Rose. Her reviews and commentary can be heard on WOSU 89.7 FM, an NPR member station broadcasting throughout Central Ohio.

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