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	Anthony Horowitz An interview with the author of Snakehead	Editor's Blog by Bill Kenower
	For more author interviews, please visit our interviews section.	Somewhere in his Poetics, the Greek philosopher Aristotle points out that the best stories are always unpredictable but inevitable. It’s a tricky balance for a writer to achieve. It means no cheap plot twists just to keep the readers off their balance; it means no deus ex machina to cleave a story’s tangled strings; it means there must be enough clues for the readers to draw their own conclusions by the end, but not so many that this conclusion is drawn somewhere in the middle of Act III. When it is done well, there is not a more satisfying story you can write. more...


Book Reviews		Articles

Editor's Pick: Song Yet Sung reviewed by Jen Baker		The Voice by Jeff Ayers
		The Voice by Jeff Ayers
Best known for The Color of Water: a Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, McBride also wrote a novel casting a unique perspective on World War II history, The Miracle at St. Anna: the story of a black military patrol caught behind enemy lines in Italy and the villagers who shelter them. In this fabulous new historical novel, the author transports modern readers into the mid-nineteenth century, just prior to the Civil War—a society on the cusp of industrial change, confounded by the subjugation of one race by another. more...		It was during the height of my mid-life crisis that I heard the voice. Due to a departmental reorganization, I had just lost my dream job and went from being a supervisor to a clerk, pay cut, and all. I was depressed and felt alienated at work, and my family and friends were both confused and alarmed. more...