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Swapna Krishna

Swapna is the Comics Editor at Book Riot. She's a Space Columnist for Paste Magazine and writes for Syfy Wire—Fangrrls, Tor.com, Bustle, and other sites. She co-hosts a podcast called Desi Geek Girls. You can find her incessant ramblings on Twitter at @skrishna. She lives outside Philadelphia.

Fresh Ink: October 28, 2014

HARDCOVER RELEASES The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore (Knopf) Wonder Woman, created in 1941, is the most ...

Fresh Ink: October 21, 2014

HARDCOVER RELEASES The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books by Azar Nafisi (Viking) Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified ...

South Asian YA: 5 Titles to Read

On the heels of my post of where to find South Asian literature in the current state of publishing, I ...

Fresh Ink: October 14, 2014

HARDCOVER RELEASES Without You, There Is No Us: My Time With the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim (Crown ...

Fresh Ink: October 7, 2014

HARDCOVER RELEASES Lila by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, ...

Fresh Ink: September 30, 2014

In Fresh Ink, we highlight and discuss some of the week’s most exciting new books. HARDCOVER RELEASES Belzhar by Meg ...

An African Reading List

If you’re like me and are trying to diversify your reading, then you know that discoverability is an issue. I ...

Fresh Ink: September 23, 2014

  HARDCOVER RELEASES Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse) Darcy Patel has put college on hold to publish her teen novel, ...

A Rough Guide on Where to Find South Asian Lit

I keep a pretty close eye on what all the major (and the large independent) publishers are doing. A few ...

In Which I Put My Marriage to the DATACLYSM Test

I’m a data nerd. I’m not ashamed of it; I love spreadsheets and graphs and other things that help me ...