When Captain Flint Was a Good Man

Fans of Deadliest Catch will be drawn to the arresting story of an Alaskan boyhood growing up in the shadow of the men who fish the treacherous Bering Sea.  But the piratical joys of Treasure Island also cast a spell over Nick Dybek's bewitching, ocean-haunted tale.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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