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The Curator: everything I read in Fall
spooky season to sweata weatha book vibes for your TBR
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The Curator: a book for remembering this is all made up
universal human truths, a book for the times, and why Bernie Sanders can still get it
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The Curator: the book I reread every October
how one Ray Bradbury novel defined my childhood
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The Curator: what books or stories gave you nightmares as a kid?
whoever thought scary kids books was a good idea should go straight to jail
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Natalie McGlocklin
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The Curator: underrated spooky season film recs & book pairings for everyone from weenies to pros
on a scale from mild-mannered to absolutely unhinged
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The Curator: when you don't enjoy a popular novel
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The Curator: underrated spooky season film recs & book pairings for everyone from weenies to pros
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The Curator: gothic tales of hauntings and lovers
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The Curator: moody mysteries of the campus novel
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The Curator

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The Curator: everything I read in Fall
spooky season to sweata weatha book vibes for your TBR
 • 
Natalie McGlocklin
11
The Curator: a book for remembering this is all made up
universal human truths, a book for the times, and why Bernie Sanders can still get it
 • 
Natalie McGlocklin
22
The Curator: the book I reread every October
how one Ray Bradbury novel defined my childhood
 • 
Natalie McGlocklin
19
The Curator: what books or stories gave you nightmares as a kid?
whoever thought scary kids books was a good idea should go straight to jail
 • 
Natalie McGlocklin
25
The Curator: underrated spooky season film recs & book pairings for everyone from weenies to pros
on a scale from mild-mannered to absolutely unhinged
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Natalie McGlocklin
45
The Curator: spooky season's crazy Uncle King
on writing and failing and becoming 1% weirder every day
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Natalie McGlocklin
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The Curator: when did witches and vampires get so sexy
the evolution from bald children eaters & murdering colonists to witchy smut & sparkly vampire marriages
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The Curator: moody mysteries of the campus novel
my pet peeves and what we are going to read instead
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Book Essays

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the [in]sanity of The Haunting of Hill House
is the house haunted or am I?
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Natalie McGlocklin
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The tragic comedy of The Bee Sting
why Paul Murray is the best of the Booker Pauls [thus far].
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Natalie McGlocklin
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The audacity of The Shards
why Bret Easton Ellis' latest book proves he hasn't changed a bit
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Natalie McGlocklin
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The dreadful beauty of East of Eden
searching for the good and evil in Steinbeck's masterpiece
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Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
when we become the virus
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Natalie McGlocklin
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Stephen King's The Stand
or Stephen King Rules
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Natalie McGlocklin
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
Finding a new favorite author in Mariana Enriquez and why family will be the death of us in any language.
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Natalie McGlocklin
North Woods by Daniel Mason
Time is an infinite loop vortex.
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