Reader Friday-A Different Kind of Post

Creative Writing

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The Ghost of Bloom in the Modern Panopticon: Re-evaluating Olivier Schrauwen’s Sunday Through a Post-Colonial Lens

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When Olivier Schrauwen’s collected Sunday was released in 2024, it was met with a chorus of critical acclaim that almost immediately settled into a singular, repetitive comparison. Critics, overwhelmed by the book’s sheer physical mass and its minute-by-minute chronicling of a single day, reached for the most formidable totem in the Western canon:

Shay Kauwe’s "The Killing Spell": A Post-Apocalyptic Hawaiian Urban Fantasy Confronts Colonial Echoes and the Magic of Language

Fantasy Literature

LOS ANGELES, CA – In a literary landscape increasingly hungry for diverse voices and genre-bending narratives, first-time Hawaiian writer Shay Kauwe delivers a powerful, albeit uneven, debut with The Killing Spell. Billed as the first adult Hawaiian urban fantasy, Kauwe’s novel plunges readers into a vividly imagined yet chillingly familiar future,

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