Bookish: Transient Vapors (5#) -

Clayton Moore has been through some grueling changes in the newspaper and publishing fields over the past year, so it's nice to see him back in his regular monthly Mystery Strumpet column at the new April edition of Bookslut.

# Tweaking your scary bone: Who writes the most frightening stories? Alison Flood reveals one of her guilty pleasures: the Horror Genre. And several dozen commenters share their nominations.

:: Another interesting entry there: Discovering
lost or unknown literature; written by Daniel Kalder.

# A pretty Smith College graduate gets bored
with her middle class life, so she becomes a drug
smuggler. And NPR features her prison memoirs.

# Memoirs of growing up in a
wealthy, but degenerating family:

Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden.
-- Reviewed by Rebecca Steinitz.

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