2008 May | Three Guys One Book

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Bright Shiny Morning

Jason Rice: Bright Shiny Morning is the debut novel by writer James Frey. It’s been a long while since we’ve seen anything from Mr. Frey and I was worried that there wouldn’t be much to read after the events that followed his memoir being selected by Ms. Winfrey. What’s the most exciting thing about Bright Shiny Morning? It’s a book that defies description and all at once is something profoundly original. Recently Mr. Frey was talking about first thought being best thought, and how several writers that he admired used that theory to describe how they wrote. For me I wondered for a long time if Frey would be able to carry over the wildly

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Ron Currie Jr. Interview

Dennis Haritou: One of the things that I like about how our blog is developing is that we are forming connections with authors. The Three Guys discuss a book in depth, offering viewpoints that are often at cross-purposes with each other. Then we invite the artist to comment on his work and our discussion. Lately, we have also been asking writers if they want to give us a story to post or link to online.Unfortunately, our timing was off for Ron Curie’s first book, God is Dead; it having been published before The Three Guys really got started. This inferno of a work of fiction took up residence in my mind and refused to leave. I felt not so much that

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Jonathan Evison Interview

Dennis Haritou: Jonathan generously took the time to answer some questions. The Three Guys seem to be developing a format where we do a close discussion of the text, an interview with the author, and post or link to a story with a brief review in an attempt to get a comprehensive snapshot of an artist’s work.

I have to say that Jonathan was a total blast. Someday the Three Guys will met him in person and tell him so. Jonathan put his responses in bold type so I left it that way.

DH: I was intrigued by your award-winning career in radio broadcasting and the passages in All About Lulu where William considers the magic of great public speech are among the

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Chairs

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All About Lulu

Dennis Haritou: All About Lulu is a coming-of-age debut novel set in California. by an author with a diverse and, I have the feeling, fascinating background including an award winning role as a syndicated talk show host. The ability to talk like a pro has an effect on the voice in this novel which displays a refreshing orality in many of its passages; as if it were being spoken to you rather than just read: a very rare quality in fiction and quite difficult to pull off as it is here, with such ease.

Our hero, William Miller, is growing up in a family of bodybuilders, a passion that he does not share with his father,

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Man

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Mary This Way - Review

Dennis Haritou: JR had a story published in an online literary magazine and he asked me to take a look at it. I decided to write a brief review on Three Guys and then invite interested parties to read the story via the link below.

This story is about a chance encounter on a Manhattan street between a man and a woman that, it turns out, have some history. The POV of the guy is what we hear and he is plainly obsessed with his old acquaintance Mary, who he hasn’t seen in quite a while. But “plainly” is not an accurate word since right off we are treated to a methodical description of Mary’s appearance that is so sensual that it

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Tide

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Outtakes From a Marriage

Jason Chambers: This week’s book is Outtakes From a Marriage, the first novel from Ann Leary, which centers on Manhattanite Julia DeLuca and her husband Joe, a rising television star. Julia discovers that Joe is having an affair and secretly stalks him via voicemail and gossip blogs while clumsily attempting to remake herself and her life in time for the Golden Globes.

I realize that I initially indicated to both of you that I did not like Outtakes, but that is not entirely accurate. Leary has an amusingly barbed edge when she picks a target, casting sharp ridicule on, in

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Fence

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David Benioff Interview

Over the years at Ain’t it Cool News I’ve had the great opportunity to talk to different writers about the process of writing and what it’s like to make something from nothing. A long time ago David Benioff and I connected through my column at AICN and he’s been kind enough to take a few minutes and answer some questions. His new novel, City of Thieves will be released by Viking in a week or so. It’s about the Siege of Leningrad, but more precisely a coming of age story set during the horrors of that historical event.