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When Amitav Ghosh's PR team asked the Guardian newspaper in the UK to publish an excerpt on literary matters from his new essay collection titled THE GREAT DERANGEMENT, the PR people and the publishers (University of Chicago Press) probably thought this...

photo credit: c@rljones The end of the first week of my internship at COSMOS, and I’m feeling pretty good! I’ve had two articles go up on the COSMOS website–one on HIV and the other on the CERN faster-than-light thingo–and I...

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written. I have two traditional romances and two novellas out. Have worked for libraries doing p.r. and marketing, been involved with political campaigns, children’ s literary, and arts and grassroots...

The White House released a report this week on the impacts of global warming. Many places are already feeling the effects. There's drought in the Southwest, rising sea levels in Miami, and now even fictional worlds are feeling the burn. There have been...

The Windup Girl is easily the best fiction I have read in at least the past 18 months. The all too plausible dystopian future that Bacigalupi's paints blew my mind. In the not so far distant future, the oil has run out, world economy collapsed, and...