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Kelly Lynn Thomas

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Kelly Lynn Thomas reads, writes, and sometimes sews in Pittsburgh, PA. Her creative work has appeared in Sou’wester, Thin Air Magazine, Heavy Feather Review, metazen, and others, and she received her MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University. She is hopelessly obsessed with Star Wars and can always be found with a large mug of tea. She also runs the very small Wild Age Press. Read more at kellylynnthomas.com.
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Unicorns, Black Holes, and Monsters

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • December 16, 2015
Rumpus illustrator A.D. Puchalski has two new comics available for purchase! The first, Sword of Fray, is a fun action-adventure romp about a unicorn who’s the embodiment of a black hole, an…
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Fact, Fiction, Other

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • December 9, 2015
Geoff Dyer, author of numerous nonfiction titles, discusses the increasingly blurry border between fiction and nonfiction—and more importantly, whether that distinction matters—at the Guardian: As the did-it-really-happen? issue gives way to questions…
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The Book as Christmas Present

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • December 9, 2015
Starting in the 1820s, when Christmas was still largely a day of feasting and religious observance, publishers helped pioneer the concept of giving mass-produced goods as presents, inventing an entire…
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Vonnegut’s Secret Weapon

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • December 9, 2015
Without his wife Jane’s faith and encouragement in his writing, it’s highly likely we wouldn’t know Kurt Vonnegut’s name from Adam. The New Yorker explores Jane’s influence on her husband…
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Debut Novelists and the Books That Shaped Them

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • December 2, 2015
Lit Hub asked the seven first-time novelists shortlisted for the 2015 Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize what book inspired them to become the authors they are today. Sophie McManus…
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Paying the Bills

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • December 2, 2015
Electric Literature has an infographic of day jobs (originally posted on Adzuna) that both paid the bills and inspired writers to create some of their best work. The professions range from teacher (Stephen King,…
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Another Lost Work by a Dead Writer

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • November 25, 2015
If it seems that “lost” books, short stories, and everything else are coming out of the woodwork, well, they are. The Strand magazine has just published Twixt Cup and Lip, an…
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Joyce Carol Oates Riles Twitter

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • November 25, 2015
A few days ago, Joyce Carol Oates mused about the media’s coverage of ISIS with a tweet that sparked an intense debate. All we hear of ISIS is puritanical &…
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Lauren Groff Talks Fates & Furies

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • November 18, 2015
In a lot of senses, this book is as much a critique of the novel as it is a novel. It’s about the assumptions we have about who gets to…
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The Agatha Christie App

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • November 18, 2015
Last week, Agatha Christie Productions Ltd. And TELL Player Limited released an app that re-tells Christie’s 1930 short story collection, The Mysterious Mr. Quin, through live video, social media feeds,…
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Latest Salvo in Genre War

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • November 11, 2015
David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks, has been nominated for both “literary” and “genre” awards, putting him in a somewhat unique position to comment on the ever-raging…
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In The Beginning

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • November 11, 2015
From award-winning indies like Graywolf and Copper Canyon, to the fresh crop of young presses like Yes Yes Books and Topside Press, every press begins with just one book. It…
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