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Rachel Cordasco

Rachel Cordasco has a Ph.D in literary studies and currently works as a developmental editor. When she's not at her day job or chasing three kids, she's writing reviews and translating Italian speculative fiction. She runs the website sfintranslation.com, and can be found on Facebook and Twitter.

In Translation: June Fiction

It’s that time again, guys- time for some fabulous fiction from around the world, courteously translated into English for our ...

How Old is an “Old” Book?

Ok, so I have this thing about time, history, and terminology, being an English-major-who-sometimes-thinks-she-should-have-been-a-history-major kind of gal. And not many ...

Wiscon: A Feminist Science Fiction Convention

WisCon, the world’s leading feminist science fiction convention, just wrapped up its 38th year of programming, and what a line-up ...

Professor E and the Towering Book Stacks

I always imagined, when I finally became a “Distinguished Professorial Personage,” that I would blanket my office in books. Even ...

Genre Kryptonite: Opera in Fiction

Once upon a time, I spent most of my waking hours researching and writing about opera in turn-of-the-20th-century American literature ...

20 Bookish Twitter Parody Accounts That Should Exist

Many of you know just how much fun Twitter can be, especially for us cool bookish folk. One of the ...

In Translation: May Fiction

So I hear that there aren’t only two countries on this planet (1.America, 2. everybody else), but nearly 200! Two ...

Studies Show: Fewer People Reading Scrolls

[The following fragment (once part of a scroll) was recently discovered when construction workers were razing a timeless architectural wonder ...

Teaching Literature With Music

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was given the opportunity to lecture on American Literature. It was ...

The Dorothys of Crime Fiction

It’s April, and as many of you know, I spent the previous month immersing myself in crime fiction. (Now I’m ...