Make Love, Not War

Earlier this week, Kirkus published an article by Smart Bitches, Trashy Books' Sarah Wendell titled “Bad, Kirkus, Bad,” and it stimulated quite a bit of controversy. As the fiction editor of Kirkus, I thought it appropriate to respond to the heated comments both in the article and contributed by passionate readers.

First, I want to set the record straight about what Kirkus really thinks about the romance genre and its readers. In short, we love ya. And we would love to review more books for you. Kirkus is a small literary journal, and like many in our shrinking field, we ...

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Kirkus Q&A - Justin Cronin

Justin Cronin’s The Passage, the first in a projected trilogy, is a futuristic, post-apocalyptic epic about a world devastated by a vampire virus that turns humans into monsters. As the world falls apart, then attempts to rebuild itself, an orphan girl, Amy, becomes humanity’s last great hope of survival. Published by Ballantine in June, the foreign rights have already been sold to 26 publishers, and Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions have acquired the film rights. Cronin, author of two previous novels, The Summer Guest (2004) and Mary and O’Neil (2001), was born in New England and ...

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