Originally published for OLY ARTS by Molly Gilmore. Jonah Barrett wouldn’t be insulted if anyone said their first book was monstrous. That’s because Barrett’s short-story collection Moss Covered Claws, dropping March 18, is all about monsters. Barrett of Olympia, a filmmaker, fantasy writer, and OLY ARTS contributor, is launching the book with an online reading and talk at …
I know what you’re thinking, and yes: he is a literal pterodactyl, with wings and a glistening, deadly beak, and rippling pectorals. Pyke is in a band, he’s dating the school track star, and he’s ruining Shiels Krane’s orderly life. She must decide if she’s willing to sacrifice everything she’s worked for, to give up the …
“Most of us can remember a simpler time in our lives, when dinosaurs dominated our imaginations as they once did planet Earth. In My Beloved Brontosaurus, Brian Switek reignites this childhood passion by enthusiastically chronicling paleontology’s groundbreaking (pun intended) new discoveries. He recounts how Triceratops transformed from a parrot-headed squirt into a frilled titan, why dinosaur …
