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If you haven’t read The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf’s internationally bestselling analysis of beauty as a social construct, get yourself back to college and try again, this time with feeling. The titles of subsequent books–all of them starred by Booklist–say it all: Fire with Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change the [...]

I know what’s the haps here at Likely Stories. You come for the staggeringly star-studded Hostile Questions, but hopefully you’ll stay for the Book Trailer Thursdays. (@ebertchicago: anytime you’d like to guest post, the microphone is yours.) Welcome back to the schoolyear! Feeling the fresh sting of an ended summer romance? Call Ex. Inc.: Over [...]

This year’s Hugo Award winners were announced on Sunday in Chicago at Chicon 7, the 70th world science fiction convention. Below are the winners for print media with links to Booklist reviews where available. For winners in other categories, such as Best Fanzine and Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form (Neil Gaiman, in case you’re interested), go here. BEST [...]

Who would have the cojones to publicly antagonize Pulitzer Prize-winning film reviewer, essayist, screenwriter, and memoir-ist Roger Ebert? Well, let me tell you a story. In a former life, I, too, was a film reviewer (I guess my Pulitzer got lost in the mail?) and on my first day at the screening room I accidentally [...]