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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 7h

#Authors born on October 8 include Walter Lord (A Night to Remember), Frank Herbert (Dune), and R.L. Stine (Goosebumps). #booksky

TRIVIA: The only two books to win both the Gold Dagger and Edgar awards were Whip Hand by Dick Francis and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré.

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 1d

"Rabbit Test" is the best short story I've read this decade. I'm sure the other stories in this collection are great, too.

Samantha (Sam) Mills @samtasticbooks.com · 3d

IT IS ALIVE!! Behold the cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, out in April! Preorder while it is still legal to distribute through the mail!

Sam grinning and holding up a huge board version of the Rabbit Test and Other Stories cover, featuring the title in striking white and red font against black backdrop, with a rabbit, pregnancy test, and heart monitor line through the text

Rabbit Test and Other Stories cover, featuring the title in striking white and red font against black backdrop, with a rabbit, pregnancy test, and heart monitor line through the text

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 1d

#Authors born on Oct 7: James Whitcomb Riley (poet), Alice Dagliesh (The Silver Pencil), Anita Shreve (The Pilot’s Wife), Diane Ackerman (The Zookeeper’s Wife), Howard Chaykin (American Flagg!), Steven Erikson (Gardens of the Moon), and Sherman Alexie (The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven).

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 2d

#Authors born on October 6 include Stanley Ellin (The Eighth Circle), Alice Borchardt (Legends of the Wolves), David Brin (Startide Rising), and Ellen Kushner (Swordspoint). #booksky

TRIVIA: Did you know Alice Borchardt was the sister of Anne Rice?

Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 3d

Happy birthday, @ecbatan.bsky.social and @colinmeloy.bsky.social !

Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 3d

#Authors born on October 5 include Denis Diderot (D’Alembert’s Dream), Flann O’Brien (At Swim Two-Birds), Clive Barker (Books of Blood), Rich Horton (Locus reviewer, Year’s Best anthologies), and Colin Meloy (Wildwood). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 3d

It's amazing the things that Mike Johnson and other Republican leaders will do to avoid releasing the Epstein files. Makes you wonder if Mike and his friends are in them, doesn't it?

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 4d

(cont) Karen Cushman (Catherine, called Birdy), and Tochi Onyebuchi (Riot Baby). 2/2

Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 4d

#Authors born on Oct 4: Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Lady Audley’s Secret), Edward Stratemeyer (Tom Swift), Damon Runyon (Guys and Dolls), Donald J. Sobol (Encyclopedia Brown), Alvin Toffler (Future Shock), Jackie Collins (The World is Full of Married Men), Anne Rice (Interview with a Vampire), 1/2

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 5d

#Authors born on October 3 include Thomas Wolfe (You Can’t Go Home Again), James Herriot (All Creatures Great and Small), Harvey Kurtzman (Little Annie Fanny), Gore Vidal (Myra Breckinridge), and Katherine Kerr (Deverry). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 5d

#Authors born on October 2 include Willy Ley, A.E. Waite, Wallace Stevens (“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”), Graham Greene (The Third Man), Jack Finney (Time and Again), Jan Morris (Pax Brittanica), and Vernor Vinge (A Fire Upon the Deep). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 7d

#Authors born on October 1 include Donald A. Wollheim, Daniel J. Boorstin (The Discoverers), Jimmy Carter (A Full Life), Tim O’Brian (The Things They Carried), Paul Park (The Starbridge Chronicles), and Holly Lisle (Mugging the Muse). #booksky

Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 8d

(cont) and Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me). 2/2

Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 8d

#Authors born on Sep 30: Rumi, Michael Innes (Sir John Appleby), Truman Capote (In Cold Blood), Elie Wiesel (Night), Jonathan Gash (Lovejoy), Laura Esquival (Like Water for Chocolate), Simon Hawke (The Ivanhoe Gambit), Nicola Griffith (Ammonite), Sheree Renée Thomas (Dark Matter), 1/2

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 9d

#Authors born on September 29 include Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote), Elizabeth Gaskell (Wives and Daughters), and Barbara Mertz (The Ape Who Guards the Balance). #booksky

Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 10d

(cont) Christopher Buckley (Thank You for Smoking), and Piper Kerman (Orange is the New Black). 2/2

Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 10d

#Authors born on Sep 28: Prosper Mérimée (Carmen), Kate Douglas Wiggin (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), Barry Pain (“An Exchange of Souls”), Ellis Peters (Cadfael), Charles Portis (True Grit), Rosario Ferré (Maldito Amor), John Sayles (Passion Fish), 1/2

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 11d

I'm partial to country singers covering pop like Dwight Yoakam's Train in Vain, Garth Brooks' Hard Luck Woman, and Johnny Cash's Rusty Cage. Other top covers for me are William Shatner's Common People and Tom Jones' Kiss.

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 11d

#Authors born on September 27 include Jim Thompson (The Killer Inside Me), Sheila Williams (Asimov’s SF Magazine), and Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 12d

#Authors born on September 26 include Winsor McCay (Little Nemo in Slumberland), J. Frank Dobie, T.S. Eliot (“The Waste Land”), L.W. Currey, Jane Smiley (MOO), and Tanya Huff (Blood Books). #booksky

Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 13d

Unfortunately, I've never read Lu Xun. After bouncing off Faulkner in high school, I read him in grad school and loved the shifting POV of The Sound and the Fury. #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 13d

#Authors born on September 25 include Lu Xun (A Madman’s Diary) and William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 14d

#Authors born on September 24 include Horace Walpole (The Castle of Otranto), F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby), Wilson Rawls (Where the Red Fern Grows), John Brunner (Stand on Zanzibar), and John Kessel (Pride and Prometheus).

Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 14d

#Authors born on September 23 include Jane Taylor (“Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”), Baroness Orczy (The Scarlet Pimpernel), Pauline Réage (Story of O), Richard Wilson (“Mother to the World”), and Peter David (comics).

Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 16d

#Authors born on September 22 include Rosamunde Pilcher (The Shell Seekers), Fay Weldon (The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil), Thomas Harris (The Silence of the Lambs), Carter Scholz (Radiance), and Elizabeth Bear (“Shoggoths in Bloom”).