REVIEW: Made to Break by D. Foy
As a latecomer to Made to Break—somebody who had read reviews extolling its bleakly exuberant language, somebody who had absorbed the author’s dense and absurd “Dispatches from the Road,” a series...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go
Both saga and romance, <em>The Steady Running of the Hour</em>, Justin Go’s debut novel, is an expression of love and angst told in many locations and points of time, spanning a century and...
View ArticleCELEBRITY BOOK REVIEW: Hillary Rodham Clinton on “The Possibilities” by Kaui...
“The Possibilities,” Kaui Hart Hemming’s follow-up to her award winning, “The Descendants,” is a novel that deals in large part with the ramifications of having a child as a single woman in the world...
View ArticleREVIEW: Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce
When I started reading Merritt Tierce’s debut novel about a self-destructive waitress, by page four I thought Tierce had penned the greatest restaurant book on earth. By page six, when protagonist...
View ArticleMidweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (February 11th)
Looking for some interesting reading to get you through hump day? Here are some literary links from around the web to check out: Critics panned Edgar Allan Poe, but his strange voice has endured...
View ArticleFun, Fantasy, and Fine Art: The Fine Art of Fucking Up by Cate Dicharry
“I am sitting behind my desk watching the downpour when I catch the scent of bacon,” begins Cate Dicharry’s The Fine Art of Fucking Up from Unnamed Press, “Dunbar is in the building again, despite the...
View ArticleBlurring the Boundary, an interview with Heidi Julavits, author of The Folded...
The breadth of Heidi Julavits’s career is sometimes hard to believe. Julavits is a founding editor of The Believer, an associate professor at Columbia University, a recipient of the PEN/New England...
View ArticleAmazon Accused of Censoring Book Reviews
In the age of social media, interacting with our favorite authors has gotten much easier. Using platforms such as Twitter or Facebook, fans can pose direct questions, “like” recent status...
View ArticleWhat Critics Are Saying about Go Set a Watchman
After a pre-publication press embargo, the reviews of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman are finally rolling in. Although it may seem like everyone you know has an opinion about the eagerly anticipated...
View ArticleMidweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (December 2nd)
Looking for some interesting reading to get you through the week? Here are some literary links from around the web to check out: Kobo Bryant retired from the NBA with a poem (is a chapbook...
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