ThreeGuys1Book has 1605 followers | By Jason Rice  Photography by Jason Rice Continue reading Surveillance #2244 By Jason Rice  One of our rules had been to not talk about it. This, of course, after we had talked it to death. After it had become clear that talking about it would not provide us with any answers. Any comfort or solace. But Hobbs, he can’t help himself. He keeps dancing around the edge of it, thinking that imposing a deeper level of thought or philosophy upon it, might make it seem like something else. But it doesn’t make it seem like something else because it is what it is. Which is everything. Hence the rules. Despite self-promises to the contrary, I take the bait. “So if you think that somehow I did it, then I imagine you think you were in on it, too?” He’s smiling again. So much that I already regret having indulged him. “Yeah. Yeah. Me too. I feel that, in a lot of ways, I was in on it.” Continue reading After Smithereens – By James P. Othmer By Jason Rice  Photography by Jason Rice Continue reading Circle By Dennis Haritou  I think it’s great when other people see themes that you didn’t necessarily intend when you set out to write a story. When some of your characters are from other countries, themes of migration come through; though I think my stories are less about migration itself, and more about life in a post-migration world. What I mean is, they aren’t immigrants in the traditional sense, in that they’ve arrived in a new county to start a new life. Continue reading Sana Krasikov Interview By 3G1B  My father arrived in NY early in the 20th century after exhausting several other continents and my mother was the first in her immediate family to be born in the U.S. Now you might think that this distinction in birth status between my parents can’t be of much importance but it was a major fault line in their marriage since my father never really left the old world while my mother never wanted any association with it. Looking back on their marriage now that they gone, I can see both their points. Continue reading One More Year by Sana Krasikov By Jason Rice  Photography by Jason Rice Continue reading Pier By Dennis Haritou  In both book and movie, an autocratic Sicilian prince is confronted with radical social and political change. He recognizes that he must either adapt or watch the spectacle of his dynasty being overwhelmed. There is a very great lesson in conservative values here and the necessity of adapting them to changing times while still remaining true to tradition. Continue reading The Leopard, Book and Movie By Jason Rice  Photography by Jason Rice Continue reading Tire By Jason Chambers  I was more taken by this novel than I had anticipated. The basic premise is that advertising sales star Josh receives a call on Friday afternoon that rushes him to the hospital where his wife has brought their infant son, Zack, complaining of vague but serious symptoms.According to his wife, Dori, the hospital screwed up, but the situation draws the attention of the Head of Pediatrics Dr. Stokes who starts the machinery on the social services monster against the couple. Continue reading More Than It Hurts You By Jason Rice  Photography by Jason Rice Continue reading V By Dennis Haritou  I noticed that this debut novel by Rajaa Alsanea about the lives of Saudi women, who struggle to balance their lives between two worlds, has been picked up with alacrity by both university bookstore and other serious literary bookstore markets. I put “debut novel” in italics because we are always interested in discovering new voices and new visions and it sounds like this narrative qualifies. It also brought to mind a memoir I read about the love of literacy among women in Iran, Readng Lolita in Tehran, which helped me to love literature even more by appreciating the effort it can take sometimes to stay civilized. Continue reading Reader’s Alert – Girls of Riyadh and Reading Lolita in Tehran By Dennis Haritou  So we were now faced with Darin Strauss’ third novel, More Than It Hurts You. So would it perform more like the first book or more like the second? In our buying decision we tried to take the middle ground and came up with a compromise number. But now we have some real data and it looks like this book is working. This novel is about a child in jeopardy and a marriage under strain. Darin Strauss is one those authors, unfailingly intelligent, who comes up with a fresh approach each time he tells a story. Continue reading Reader’s Alert – More Than It Hurts You By Dennis Haritou  I would love to do this. If I did, then I could be sure that I was literate. Besides, behind each word is a story and here are 21,730 pages of stories. Ammon Shea took a year off from existence (another goal of mine) to read the Oxford English Dictionary. If you have done that, it’s almost as if you have read every novel in English in the world because you have read all the words. Continue reading Reader’s Alert – Reading the OED By Dennis Haritou  City of Thieves is a great seller, but at this point I wonder if it will make the Times list. Viking should be happy with the sales. This is Benioff’s first novel with them, as The 25th Hour was published by Carroll & Graf, way back when, at the time it was critically praised by Ms. Kakutani, and turned into a fantastic movie, which was followed by his short story collection, When The Nines Roll Over, which struggled to find a wider audience upon it’s release, and sadly went overlooked. Continue reading Reader’s Alert – City of Thieves By Jason Rice  Photography by Jason Rice Continue reading Facepalm | |
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