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Susie Rodarme

Susie Rodarme is obsessed with small press literary fiction and tea. Other notable skills: chainmaille weaving, using Photoshop semi-correctly, and drinking gin.

Reading Romance Is Like Falling In Love

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If Literary Classics Were Episodes of Jerry Springer: A Quiz

One of the things that moves literature is drama–and who’s the king of drama? You might say Shakespeare, Sophocles, or ...

Frances Bean Cobain Wants to Discuss Books With You

Or, rather, you can feel free to discuss them with her: https://twitter.com/alka_seltzer666/status/464574287769522176 Frances Bean Cobain turned out to be quite ...

12 Good Books I Know I’m Never Going to Read

Obviously, if I don’t think I’m going to like a book, I won’t put it on my TBR; sometimes, though, ...

Why We Still Need Publishers

I wrote a post over at Insatiable Booksluts recently that drew some attention from unexpected places. The post was a ...

What Does Your Ideal Bookstore Look Like?

When I was a wee reader, I didn’t have a lot of bookstore options. Up until I was 14 or ...

Should Literature Be Taught In English Class?

This post has gone through several incarnations as I’ve been musing about it. It started as a defense of having ...

$6 DRM-Free Small Press Ebooks? Yes, Please!

On June 3, I saw something so exciting on Twitter that I almost peed myself.* Red Hen Press, whom I ...

How To Collect A Book Series in the Same Edition

As a reader, you know I get passionate about my favorite book series. You know what drove me insane while ...

Amazon Is Not a Monopoly or a Monopsony

So, yet another op-ed has come forth reviling Amazon and its selling practices, which means that yet another op-ed has ...