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 Bookish Kind of Town

Anytime someone mentions my hometown of Baltimore, (or “Bawlmer,” as some say), you probably think of The Wire or John ...

Out of the Depths of the Library

Greetings, everyone! I’ve just returned from a dangerous but fascinating adventure. You know Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea? ...

8 “Go-Away-I’m-Reading” Paintings

Impressionist painters: they were a motley group, radical for their time, daring, and adventurous. Their angle was to paint what ...

Reading Under the Desk

As I kid, I actually liked school (ok, I only liked my English, History, Social Studies, and Art classes, but ...

Ten Things That Drive Books Crazy

Ever wished your books could speak to you? (I mean, literally “speak,” and not in the “oooooh that book spoke ...

Better Endings for 10 Classic Books

1. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann Ol’ Gussie thinks to himself, “hmm, that Tadzio is pretty smokin’, but he’s ...