Val Kilmer, by In the aftermath of their fateful crossing, one of them will be dead, and the other, nowhere to be found. If there were ever a time to distract yourself with escapist fiction, that time is now. But just as she appropriates articles of male dress that suit her, pairing gold-threaded corsets with high boots and pants, she’s hardly in literary drag. By Lynda E. Rucker . guys would start in on the Midwesterners, who would roll their eyes at the East Coast preppies. Satanic superstitions are just a few of the dangers confronting Rue, the heroine of Afia Atakora’s satisfyingly spooky first novel, CONJURE WOMEN (Random House, 416 pp., $27). “Trouble was, no one quite knew what to do with a piano prodigy in cornrows, mixing classical music with hip-hop beats and bass lines alongside a dash of gospel,” she writes. One pair of researchers has found that when you control for shot difficulty, hard evidence of the hot hand emerges. “Park Slope moms were beautiful and fashionable and fit, but they were above caring too much about silly things like fashion,” McCreight writes. Horror fiction is fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. 'Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds' by Gwenda Bond, 'Here There Are Monsters' by Amelinda Bérubé, 'In the Shadow of Spindrift House' by Mira Grant, 'The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan' by Caitlín R. Kiernan, 'The Tenth Girl' by Sara Faring (Sep. 24), 'The Monster of Elendhaven' by Jennifer Giesbrecht (Sep. 24), 'The Twisted Ones' by T. Kingfisher (Oct. 1). Cleverly ricocheting her chapters between the 1850s and the 1860s, Atakora shows how the legacy of bondage is played out in the aftermath of war. Soon, they are reading true crime and pulpy murder mysteries, dreaming that “something exciting would happen.”. Previously she was a correspondent in the London bureau, and a reporter for the culture and metro desks. Scenes in “slaverytime” gradually reveal the reasons for certain actions in “freedomtime.” Of course, the people in the Big House and the people in the cabins are linked by violence, but they’re also enmeshed in the complexities of kinship, both forced and chosen. The Haunting of Hill House is simply the best haunted house story ever written. Partly inspired by McPhee’s grandmother’s own stories, AN ELEGANT WOMAN (Scribner, 416 pp., $27) charts the course of a hardscrabble youth in the raw American West that’s deftly camouflaged by a prosperous, sophisticated Eastern adulthood. I couldn’t care less.”. It was hard to choose the best of these books. The twisted intermixing of their lives often leaves one feeling as constrained as a lady laced into a bone corset. $3.99 #3. Smalls, a chef and classically trained opera singer, grew up in South Carolina, where he learned to cut out biscuits with his mother and smuggled bags of fried okra into the movies as “my better-than-popcorn snack.” The premise of his warm, ebullient and nostalgic book is to offer a “playlist” of African-American dishes — “the very best of what I have eaten, cooked and imagined.” Smalls groups the dishes into chapters that correspond with genres of African-American music. Bouton and Shecter’s unexpurgated account of life in the big leagues kicked open the clubhouse door to reveal the booze-swilling, greenie-popping, skirt-chasing man-children within. “With that,” Strauss writes, “the Hornets lost out on the greatest backcourt of all time.”, Strauss follows the Warriors on their rise from doormat to dynasty (and back again). Secrets pile up like cars on the freeway, some of them exiting onto service roads that lead nowhere. Could it be the same relic that’s bought for six shillings in a grubby ninth-century market by 60-year-old Brother Felix, pining for a friend from his youth while he cares for the corpses of fellow monks in the putridarium of Santa Prisca? As with actors forced to double up on roles in a regional theater company, each character plays multiple parts in the ensuing drama. Anyone who has read Henderson’s previous books (like “The Whole Beast” and “Beyond Nose to Tail”) knows what to expect from this one: offal, hedonism and drollery. If there’s a muse in Alicia Keys’s new memoir, MORE MYSELF: A Journey (Flatiron, 256 pp., $29.99), written with Michelle Burford, it’s New York City just as the ’90s were coming to a close, back when black people could still afford brownstones in Brooklyn. So-called “anchovy gunge” (ugly names are part of the St. John shtick) is a salty, garlicky, umami-packed sauce I now want to spread on a slice of toast every afternoon. Whether you like a healthy dose of gore, or just the suggestion of something in the shadows, there's a horror novel on this list that is perfect for you. “They are places where anyone can find something they will want to eat.” That’s a perfect description of their hospitable book, with recipes for everything from lunch-counter standards (chocolate egg cream, Salisbury steak) to contemporary stalwarts, like kale salad. Heather Gudenkauf, by This is not an egg cookbook. Iseult, a “drab and faded” woman on the verge of spinsterhood, is haunted by her mother, Beatrice, who died in childbirth. Early on, the B.U. For Smith, this is a literary hook, a means of exploring large moral questions: How much do we owe to those we love? While you can cook a quick meal from any of the books on my list, the only one dedicated to helping you do this, night after night, is HOW TO DRESS AN EGG: Surprising and Simple Ways to Cook Dinner (Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 232 pp., $30), by Ned Baldwin and Peter Kaminsky. Keith Law, by From the author of Feed and Into the Drowning Deep comes this new novella about a young woman caught up in her final case as a teenage detective. And Georgie isn’t a conventional heartthrob: “stubborn, with dark hair and a severe, slightly chubby face. “It didn’t help that the skates had blue pompoms on the toes, either,” he deadpans. Stephen R. Matthews, right, talks about anti-poaching patrols in his memoir. Peter Gatien. “The Beetle” is something of a detective story, filled with revenge, false promises, sadistic villains and abducted young women. Sera’s shamelessness is a thin performance, and she is cruelly reviled by her community in a way no rake ever is. The Beetle is a strange beast, half male and half female, and is after Paul, we discover, for reasons related to a trip he took to Egypt some 20 years before. Among the artifacts that Nathanson uncovered is a lawyer’s letter enumerating 42 potentially actionable items in the “Ball Four” manuscript: “The statement that the author hated the Yankees is evidence of malice. “Surfing dominated our thoughts and conversations: When could we get away to go surfing; where should we surf; and, afterward, how had each ride played out?”, Heldreich was among the first women to participate in the competitions held by the Waikiki Surf Club in the 1950s, and she traveled as far as Lima, Peru, as an ambassador for the sport, taking first prize — a two-foot silver trophy — in a contest at Playa Kon Tiki. Tori Amos, by Three years later, though, at the start of Eloisa James’s SAY YES TO THE DUKE: The Wildes of Lindow Castle (Avon, 386 pp., paper, $7.99), Viola’s stepsister helps her get over her fears just in time to come out to society. Julianna, the child Lecia was babysitting that night, has grown up to become Jujubee, a dancer at a sketchy nightclub who is built for “a world of jiggling and taunting, of sauntering and displaying” but who has the eye of an artist and a hunger to escape to something better. Is it really a good idea to have a wedding on a possibly haunted island full of ancient bodies buried in the peat, especially with a major storm brewing? That, more than anything, meant she should marry him,” and nothing in the book seems to complicate that notion. Much of the architecture of the novel is built to support this claim, but “Devolution” doesn’t capture the most important things: the wondrous and fearsome nature of such a creature, the miracle of his survival and the allure of Bigfoot for so many who believe he exists. His version of Momofuku’s bo ssam, “a moist, fragrant collapse of roast pork beneath a tight and salty caramel crust,” and slow-cooked Mississippi roast, his take on a popular beef recipe that originated in the South, were already favorites in my repertoire. In his early 20s he left the New York theater world and moved to Hollywood with his girlfriend, Cher, and for the rest of his career ricocheted between artistic aspirations and movie stardom. Meanwhile, Zach and Amanda’s friends among the fellow parents at Brooklyn Country Day are wrestling with their own demons, some of which will emerge at Maude Lagueux’s notorious Sleepaway Soiree. Athletes swear it exists because they’ve felt it. He makes space for her, but doesn’t push her. There are so many wonderful titles this year, books that will introduce you to novel pasta shapes from underexplored corners of Italy and others that will help you eat more vegetables. As they fall in love they are dogged by their pasts and presents: As a young woman, Sera was seduced by a neighbor, who abandoned her when she became pregnant; she lost the baby and he married someone else. Jake Anderson, by “For me, the wild banquet laid before us is an extraordinary feast,” she writes. A 1985 article co-authored by the famous cognitive psychologist Amos Tversky and two others seemed to lay the matter to rest. “Betty, you and your friends were the first generation of Makaha women surfers,” Rell said. But in the realm of historical fiction, women have plenty of opportunity to take their revenge, and right now Hilary Mantel isn’t the only one doing it. Her father, the producer Richard Gregson, and Wood divorced when Natasha was an infant. Eruzione’s account of the game itself can’t help being entertaining, but far more interesting are the details he embroiders around the edges. Soft pimento cheese melts into the beef and caramelized onions, lavishly buttered rye toast soaking up the juices. Allison M. Dickson presents a chilling tale of entrapment and greed in her new horror fiction masterpiece: Strings.After four years of turning tricks in a mob-run New York brothel to pay off a debt, Nina is ready to go back to a quiet life in Iowa. Cases involving children, Sellers-Garcia reassures us, were treated as crimes. Tenants recoiled in horror, we’re told, to learn that “for nearly two weeks they had drunk, brushed their teeth with, and bathed in corpse water.”. On the one hand it’s correct that Sera’s lurid life should also be unsatisfying — like all romance rakes, she needs to fall in love to find true happiness, to open not only her bed but her heart. It reënveloped him now. Pay close attention to seemingly throwaway details about the characters’ pasts. “I had to make movies for money,” he says in another honest, unsurprising memory. Horror After Dark. It is strongly recommended that you study the magazine before submitting. Marsh tells the story of Paul Lessingham, a handsome, well-respected parliamentarian whose success seems unstoppable, but who has inspired the hatred of a creature who claims to be part of an Egyptian cult of Isis. “There were so many kidnappings in Depression-era America that newspapers listed the less sensational cases in small type,” David Stout tells us in his gripping page-turner, THE KIDNAP YEARS: The Astonishing True History of the Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America (Sourcebooks, 430 pp., $26.99). While the romance is central, it is somewhat in service to January’s personal healing and growth. And even if you don’t make it (you won’t), the recipe — like all St. John recipes — is fun to read: “Slice your potatoes to the thickness of a pound coin and cover the pie filling with a single layer, expressing yourself architecturally as you go. Cohen was an unaccomplished athlete, yet with each make, his confidence grew: “In one quarter of one game, I scored more points than I had in my entire life.”. Wagner fiercely defends her stepfather against any suspicion. Those foxes in the woods? In CATHERINE HOUSE (Custom House, 311 pp., $27.99), Elisabeth Thomas’s delicious literary Gothic debut, Ines Murillo, a self-described ghost, is accepted into the mysterious, exclusive Catherine House, “not just a school, but a cloister” of higher learning that “by some miracle of chemistry produced some of the world’s best minds: prizewinning authors, artists and inventors, diplomats, senators, Supreme Court justices.” Founded by “Transcendentalists instead of Puritans” in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, Catherine House is an endless puzzle-box of “baroque fantasy rooms”: a subterranean ballroom that doubles as an initiation chamber, a “three-story kaleidoscope” of a library, a music room with “brocade chairs, music history books, Chinese black lacquer screens and a grand piano polished to a high gloss.” Tuition is free, and food, clothing and toiletries are provided, as long as students leave everything behind and become part of the Catherine House “experiment.” It is so exclusive, and so romantic, that Ines just might be able to stop running from her dark past. In 2011, Myers approached the New Orleans Hornets about a deal for Chris Paul, offering Steph Curry and Klay Thompson in exchange. The result is a romance that feels at once classical and sui generis, steeped in the history of the genre but utterly original. Greene is adept at extrapolating meaning from oddities and a sense of wonder from the family histories contained within the walls of small museums. Start with the chapter on dumplings, pancakes and, above all, pies, which can be large or small, sweet or savory, filled with salmon, chicken, scallions, sweet cheese, basically anything. Sarah Lyall is a writer at large for The Times, working for a variety of desks including sports, culture, media and international. She knows that someone has the blood of 17 women on his hands. Contributors' Guidelines. Grady Hendrix, by John Williams, now better known as the composer of the “Star Wars” theme, earned his first Academy Award nomination for the “Dolls” musical score. History, it’s said, is written by the winners — and that usually means men. How special you were with your plaid shirts, midriffs, Lilith Fairs, gangsta rap and boy bands. He’s a ladies’ man, old enough to be her father, part of her mother’s social set. When Ines discovers the truth about Catherine House, she must grapple with what she has long avoided: who she is and who she might become. But be glad you’re not holed up in sleepy Grotto, Iowa, which embodies the three rules of small-town thriller life: 1. Strauss writes that when he would watch games with advance scouts, they’d tell him it was their easiest night of the season, because there was nothing to scout: It was all improvisation. A. Cuddon defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing". 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