I’m a big fan of the good review, and I think it sells books, but you actually have to read something from time to time, just so you don’t sound like you’re piling on to a prevailing attitude. There is a good chance that these books will sell in your store. I can tell you that the book 03, just from the review in The New Yorker, from James Wood, will certainly sell, not only because it’s affordable, but the reviewer carries some serious weight, (How Fiction Works). It also sounds sick, weird and voyeuristic in an interesting way. 03 is translated from French, so, it’s got that going for it…
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    JR’s Picks: I’m a big fan of the good review, and I think it sells books, but you actually… http://goo.gl/fb/BCBZG22 hours ago  @JonathanEvison You're welcome. I'll let you know when I post the review. Enjoy the holiday weekend!2 days ago New Stories From The South edited by Amy Hempel: Algonquin’s 25th Anniversary Edition of… http://goo.gl/fb/alIit2 days ago  RT: @AlgonquinBooks WEST OF HERE @JonathanEvison a 'Sleeper: Top 20...for Fall' http://bit.ly/cDVB34. Sounds good! http://bit.ly/bdV8mC #fb4 days ago  RT @AlgonquinBooks: WEST OF HERE by @JonathanEvison is a 'Sleeper: Top 20 hand-sell from Indies for Fall': http://bit.ly/cDVB344 days ago  RT @AlgonquinBooks: WEST OF HERE by @JonathanEvison is a 'Sleeper: Top 20 hand-sell from Indies for Fall': http://bit.ly/cDVB344 days ago  WEST OF HERE by @JonathanEvison is a 'Sleeper: Top 20 hand-sell from Indies for Fall': http://bit.ly/cDVB344 days ago  Another big winner in 10/1 issue of LJ: @JonathanEvison's West of Here. "Sometimes a Great Notion meets Citizen Vince." http://bit.ly/bmsOjT4 days ago Another big winner in 10/1 issue of LJ: @JonathanEvison's West of Here. "Sometimes a Great Notion meets Citizen Vince." http://bit.ly/bmsOjT4 days ago |
Hempel selects twenty-five stories, some from writers you know – Dorothy Allison, Padgett Powell, Ron Rash, and one of my favorites, Wendell Berry. Some are relative unknowns, to me at least, like Adam Atlas, whose story “New Year’s Weekend” opens the collection. The unnamed narrator, an American living in Naples, Continue reading New Stories From The South edited by Amy Hempel
His central character is a drug dealer, Alfredo Batista, and such is MB’s sublime moral relativism that Alfredo is the hero of Dogfight. I promise that you will love him. Alfredo is worried, and all the gossip-heads in Jackson Heights would pay admission to see, what happens to Alfredo when Continue reading Dogfight by Matt Burgess |
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Algonquin’s 25th Anniversary Edition of their great New Stories from the South anthology hit the shelves last week, this time edited by none other than Amy Hempel, who knows a thing or two about stories, her geographical origins notwithstanding. Her Collected Stories was one of my favorite books of 2007, and still gets pulled off of the shelf from time to time.
DH: A star is born, a raw red giant in the constellation of Queens, New York. Matt Burgess has such a great word vault that he seems at war with being a writer who is also such a great noticer. The prose turns a bit purple a times, like Matt is straining, eager to let his imagination loose onto the streets of his beloved Jackson Heights.
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