Tag: alison rumfitt
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2024 Tournament of Books: The Guest vs Brainwyrms/The Shamshine Blind vs Chain-Gang All-Stars
In the upper right corner of the grid, I completely disagreed with the judges of the first round, so we get a pair of completely non-overlapping competitions here. The alternate history In the universe where the judges made the correct decision, the match-up would be between Chain-Gang All-Stars and The Shamshine Blind. I’m faced with a choice…
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2024 Tournament of Books: Chain-Gang All-Stars vs Brainwyrms
I first encountered Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing in his short story collection Friday Black. The first story in the collection, “The Finkelstein 5” blew me away so much that when I finished reading it in the back seat of a Lyft in January 2019, I wanted to tell the driver that he needed to pull over…