Critical Friends Episode 23: On Reviewing Debuts

About this episode

The episode discusses the responsibilities reviewers have towards debut authors and features reviews of two debut works.

In this episode of Critical Friends , the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Hana Carolina and Alex Kingsley join Dan Hartland to think about reviewing debut books and writers. Is there an extra responsibility reviewers owe to new writers? And if so, what might it be? Hana's review of Krackle's Last Movie by Chelsea Sutton Alex's review of Isaac by Allee Mead

People in this episode

Host: Dan Hartland

Guests: Hana Carolina, Alex Kingsley

Topics covered

• reviewing debut books
• responsibility of reviewers
• SFF criticism
• new writers
• literary reviews

Keywords

• debut books
• SFF criticism
• reviewing
• literary responsibility
• new writers

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Krackle's Last Movie, Isaac

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