THE QUEEN OF BAD INFLUENCES, by Jim Shepard: Excellent short stories, many dealing with disasters: the great hurricane of 1935, the Johnstown flood, the "Big Burn" of 1910 in Idaho, the sinking of the Lusitania. You'll love these.

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A new book, OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE (T3), is published today. It's the final book of the Talisman trilogy, co-written with my old buddy, Peter Straub. Thank you for your attention in this matter.

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Reading has become an endangered species. Which is half the problem with American political life. Maybe more than half. If you can't read, you can't think. Then you can fall for anything. The idea, for instance, that the truth is fake news.

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YESTERYEAR, Caro Claire Burke: Funny and sharp enough to draw blood from both sexes. This book is going to be around for a long time. It's a feminist CATCH-22.

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Can't believe I made it to 79. I mean, holy cow!

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