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Interview with Author Kate Milford
May 7, 2021
By Sita
I have always been a big fan of Kate Milford’s books, and so when I heard she had a new book coming out I very quickly knew I would want to write about it. Since I had already written a blog post on her other books, I decided that instead of a review, I could interview her about the book and her writing in general.
The Raconteur’s Commonplace Book was released February 23, and, unsurprisingly, it was very engaging and altogether wonderful. In it, strangers are trapped together at an inn, and as the blurb so eloquently puts it, “to pass the time, they begin to tell stories. that eventually reveal more about their own secrets than they intended.” Each story told in the tavern stands on its own, but an overarching story emerges from all of the tales, making the book feel like a short story collection where each short story indirectly contributes to the overarching one. It takes place in the 1930s, in the fictional city
While reading for
Locus this year, I kept an unofficial list of notes about things I wanted to mention in my end-of-the-year essay. The biggest word on the list is “WITCHES,” which cropped up in more than one memorable title to cross my desk. From the field hockey team that takes a solemn oath within an Emilio Estevez notebook in Quan Barry’s
We Ride Upon Sticks to the mill workers who cast a life-saving spell for union solidarity in C.S. Malerich’s
Factory Witches of Lowell, witches factored largely in 2020 fantasy fiction. The wide variety of class, ethnicity, and circumstance that showed up in all of these titles was dazzling, and I enjoyed each and every one immensely.
Reforming the Intricate Ethnic Mafia State of Ethiopia TPLF created demands rooting out dysfunctional elites
Sadly, the most educated and privileged dysfunctional elites in the diaspora that live in democratic nations violate the foundation of democratic governance reform the most visible for necked eye.
Teshome Debalke
February 10, 2021
First, it is great pleasure to witness, the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) that constructed the ethnic Mafia State of Ethiopia three decades ago finally and officially cease to exist as we know it when its notoriously corrupt and traitorous Kingpin
Sibhat Nega and his closest lieutenants that enforce his ethnic mob rule were unceremoniously captured – ending the era of terror, extortion, and plunder of a nation as we predicted was a matter of time before they bit the dust a decade ago.