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Scott Beauchamp

Scott Beauchamp is a veteran and writer living in Brooklyn. He also writes about culture and books at Full Stop.

Books to Annoy Your Conservative Friends

Even with your nose stuck in a book on the beach, it’s been hard to ignore all the political noise ...

The Next Book You Read is Always the Best Book

“The next time is the best time, we all know…” – Roxy Music, from the song “Re-Make/Re-Model” I love the ...

The Most Overrated Books of All Time (According to Me)

After reading a somewhat pithy and entertainingly disappointing post on Flavorwire about the 10 Epidemically Overrated Books, I was in ...

My Historical Fiction Fantasies

Much to the consternation of my vaccine-and internet-obsessed wife, I’m a big fan of the not so recent past. I ...

Frankenstein and Joyce Go Digital

The long, slow death of the printed book is a story that’s as well-trod as any other cliché about technology ...

Now That Iraq is Over, Where Are the Great Books?

Sometimes it’s difficult to read about subjects that you’ve lived. I’m reminded of my dad, an aerospace engineer, critiquing the ...

The Death of Bram Stoker and the Birth of Horror

The deaths of famous people always seem more open-ended than our own. Whereas our deaths may be suffused with mystery, ...

Guide to the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize is different from other literary awards in a few ways:  Unlike The Pulitzer Prize, there’s definitely going ...

Sites We Like: The Lisa Simpson Book Club

One of the many many things I like about The Simpsons is that there isn’t any single character that the writers want ...

Growing Up a Garbage Pail Kid

My earliest memory of accumulating enough capital to be able to go buy something on my own ended with a ...