Everything, Nothing, Someone: a Memoir by Alice Carrière
Hearts shoot out of my eyes for this book; in fact, I’m in love with Alice Carrière’s memoir...
The Guest by Emma Cline
“I subscribe to the law of contrary public opinion…if everyone thinks one thing, then I say, bet...
The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
The Librarianist Patrick deWitt Ecco. July 2023 on sale It’s hard to imagine the literary world...
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
When a deeply-flawed tell-all biography of the late artist X is released, her widow, CM Lucca,...
We Are Too Many, A Memoir (kind of) by Hannah Pittard and Other Thoughts
I might have read all the good books as a reader and reviewer. I’ve not done the latter since the...
New Yorker: My Sad Dead by Mariana Enriquez
In the February 13/20 2023 issue of The New Yorker. An older woman lives in a declining...
On the Horizon: February 2023
I’ve got a pile of books on my desk and in my e-reader, so let’s take a look at what...
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time.…
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Man on the Run story has become something of an archetype for the modern thriller. or is it a cliché?…
Godspeed by Nickolas Butler
Bart, Teddy, and Cole are the team behind True Triangle Construction, a small-time outfit struggling to get over the hump to real projects.…
Fugitives of the Heart by William Gay
Fugitives of the Heart is the last of William Gay’s posthumous, stolen novels. You can read the story about that in the introduction by Sonny Brewer, a welcome addition to the literature on Gay.…
