The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
It is hard to believe that I have only read a few books by Denis Johnson, and prior to The...
Tag: novel
1000 Words – Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole
On the way home from the airport, at the roundabout of Ikeja bus stop, where the late afternoon...
Trieste by Dasa Drndic
Reading Dasa Drndic’s novel Trieste is not easy. She has decided to tell the story of Haya...
Subtle Bodies by Norman Rush
I was won over by Subtle Bodies early and what did it was the elf shoes. Nina is enroute to...
Just What Kind of Mother Are You? by Paula Daly
I don’t know who Lisa Gardner is, and I suppose it really doesn’t matter because this has nothing...
The Abomination by Jonathan Holt
Tom Gauld, cartoonist for the book review section of The Guardian, published a piece that I think...
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver’s timely new novel Big Brother is not about who is the next housemate to be...
Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich
I’ve seen the future, and Cormac McCarthy has written it. The Road is the only novel about the end...
Ten Things I’ve Learnt About Love by Sarah Butler
A box of ARCs arrived and as I was making a reading pile, this book’s red cover grabbed me. Inside was a letter from the editor, and I immediately took it to the couch and gave it my full attention (the writing whispered of Elliott Holt, more on that in a minute).…
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
Back in my MFA days at a midwestern university whose faculty came a bit late to the whole postmodernism thing, I took a contemporary fiction course with a professor who liked to make the claim, during nearly every class, that all works of art were in some way about the making of art.…
You Are One Of Them Giveaway
Short of selling Elliott Holt soap on a rope, we’re giving away 5 ARC’s of her debut novel, You Are One of Them.…
Love is a Canoe by Ben Schrank
It has been a very long time since I finished a novel and yelled, “that was awesome!” When you savor a book, carry it with you, let it steal moments of your day, stop yourself from finishing it, you’re lucky.…
