Loren Eaton refuses to review Megan Abbott’s Bury Me Deep. “Can’t talk about how Abbott walks a tightrope over the chasm between the literary and genre worlds, every sentence showing her knowledge of the writer’s craft while the subject matter stays committed to delighting the reader,” he says, leaving us to wonder what could possibly be in this book.

Jonathan Rogers talks about the origins of one of his books. “When I sat down to write The Charlatan’s Boy, the first sentence I wrote turned out to be the first sentence of the finished product: ‘I don’t remember one thing about the day I was born.'”