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.

A Book-Binge Survival Guide

Close your eyes and imagine. Oh wait, you need your eyes to read this- scratch that. Anyway, the holidays have ...

5 Novels About the JFK Assassination

November 22 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Countless books have been written on ...

A Literary Award Pageant

Each year, literary awards are given to those writers who have produced superb pieces of literary fiction, science fiction, fantasy, ...

An (Imaginary) Thanksgivukkah Reading List

Stephen Colbert once said, “How dare you, Hanukkah! Pretty soon school kids will think Thanksgiving started when the Wampanoags sat ...

Things Famous Authors Liked

I don’t know about you, but I’m really getting tired of all the hating lately, especially in the book world. ...

Pearl Buck and the Posthumous Novel

A short time ago, I came across Shortlist.com’s list of the “30 Greatest Posthumous Novels.” There were the usual suspects: ...

To My Fairy Bookmother

Dear Fairy Bookmother, You usually come through for me. Each year, when I send you the list of books I’d ...

Reading Aloud

It was the summer of 2008, and I couldn’t look at my dissertation ANY LONGER. I loathed its very existence, ...

5 Hilarious How-To Books

Oh, dear. Apparently, there are how-to books, and then there are how-to books. I mean, what a wonderful place this ...

Out of the Depths: RETRIBUTION

Thank goodness! I hear you say. Finally, we get to find out what those old, musty books were actually about! ...