She continued: "Within weird-girl fiction, women are allowed to be messy, to be angry, to be loud and within these books the main female characters are given permission to take up space." ...

New history books delve into Cincinnati’s favorite lost places, colorful characters and its weirder side, plus the fight for the city’s moral values.

These characters include those who are killed off during their debut because there’s always the possibility that some might be brought back later, perhaps if their weird factor gets normalized.

The books are very unique, the books are very weird. We get to do a lot of that weirdness this season, which I like a lot." The third season picks up shortly after Season 2 ended back in 2023.

Writing recently in his newsletter, Lincoln Michel (author of “The Body Scout”), championed books narrated by the “weird little freaks of the world.” I am here today to seco… ...

Some fictional characters, for example, are literally becoming the landscape. In the 1990 Margaret Atwood story that lends its name to Wilk’s collection, a girl disappears in the wilderness.