My 2019 book Radicalized has been named one of the five finalists for Canada Reads, the CBC’s annual book prize — Canada’s leading national book award, alongside of the Governor General’s award!
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Radicalized makes the CBC’s annual Canada Reads longlist
The Canadian Broadcasting Coporation’s annual Canada Reads prize is one of Canada’s top literary prizes, ranking with the Governor General’s prize for prestige and reach; it begins early in January with the announcement of a longlist of 15 recommended books, and then these are whittled down to a shortlist of five books later in the month. Over the months that follow, each of the shortlisted books is championed by a Canadian celebrity in a series of events across the country, with the grand prize winner being announced in late March after a televised debate among the five books’ “champions.”
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Radicalized is one of the LA Public Library’s books of the year!
It’s not just the CBC and the Wall Street Journal — I was delighted to see this morning that Radicalized, my 2019 book of four science fiction novellas made the LA Public Library’s list of the top books of 2019! “As always his writing is sharp and clear, covering the absurdities that surround and infiltrate our lives, and predicts new ones waiting for us just around the corner. A compelling, thought provoking, macabre funny read.”
Radicalized is one of the CBC’s best books of 2019!
Well this is pretty great! Radicalized, my book of four novellas, is one of the CBC’s picks for best Canadian fiction of 2019. It’s in pretty outstanding company, too, including Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments.
Sleuths discover the source of $28m in dark money lobbying in favor of emergency room “surprise bills”: private equity firms that own doctors’ practices
Even if you’re insured and even if you assiduously verify that the emergency rooms you visit when undergoing a medical crisis are “in network” for your insurer, you can still end up with thousands of dollars in “surprise bills” from ER docs and anesthetists who don’t work for the hospital — instead, they work for private “physician staffing firms” who can and do charge whatever they want for your care.
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Charles de Lint on Radicalized: “among my favorite things I’ve read so far this year”
I’ve been a Charles de Lint fan since I was a kid (see photographic evidence, above, of a 13-year-old me attending one of Charles’s signings at Bakka Books in 1984!), and so I was absolutely delighted to read his kind words in his books column in Fantasy and Science Fiction for my latest book, Radicalized. This book has received a lot of critical acclaim (“among my favorite things I’ve read so far this year”), but to get such a positive notice from Charles is wonderful on a whole different level.
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My appearance on the MMT podcast: compelling narratives as a means of advancing complex political and economic ideas
I’ve been following the Modern Monetary Theory debate for about 18 months, and I’m largely a convert: governments spend money into existence and tax it out of existence, and government deficit spending is only inflationary if it’s bidding against the private sector for goods or services, which means that the government could guarantee every unemployed person a job (say, working on the Green New Deal), and which also means that every unemployed person and every unfilled social services role is a political choice, not an economic necessity.
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Paul Di Filippo on Radicalized: “Upton-Sinclairish muckraking, and Dickensian-Hugonian ashcan realism”
I was incredibly gratified and excited to read Paul Di Filippo’s Locus review of my latest book, Radicalized; Di Filippo is a superb writer, one of the original, Mirrorshades cyberpunks, and he is a superb and insightful literary critic, so when I read his superlative-laden review of my book today, it was an absolute thrill (I haven’t been this excited about a review since Bruce Sterling reviewed Walkaway).
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Come to my #SDCC2019 signing and giveaway this morning at 10AM at the Tor Booth, 2701
I’m headed back to San Diego for Comic-Con today for a signing and giveaway for Radicalized, Tor Booth, #2701. I hope to see you there!
The “ghost networks” of mental health professionals that US health insurers rely on to deny care to their patients
If you’ve decided to investigate treatment options for your mental health, your health insurer will cheerfully refer you to a list of hundreds of providers — but as STAT’s Jack Turban discovered, this “network” of providers is actually a “ghost network,” filled with wrong numbers that ring in McDonald’s restaurants and jewelers. If you happen to reach an actual mental health professional, they’ll probably tell you they’re not accepting new patients.
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