When We Fell In Love – Eric D. Goodman
Eric D. Goodman’s Tracks is the latest release from our friends at Atticus Books, who are among my favorite new indie presses.…
Read MoreEric D. Goodman’s Tracks is the latest release from our friends at Atticus Books, who are among my favorite new indie presses.…
Read MoreJE: Last week I covered Shann Ray’s dynamite collection from Graywolf, American Masculine. My pal Jim Thompsen and I (different Jim Thompsen!)…
Read MoreThe Bret Easton Ellis Interview Part 1 can be found here. We debate Robert J. Lennon, which I get horribly wrong, and Bret has to correct me, it’s so embarrassing, and he lets me off the hook.…
Read MoreBret Easton Ellis took the time to talk to me last week. I sat down with a set of questions that seemed interesting but once we started talking, they didn’t seem to matter.…
Read MoreJE: We’ve come to expect amazing things from Graywolf, who can stand toe to toe with any shop in the business when it comes to editorial voice–to wit, in the past few months alone we’ve covered Ben Percy’s excellent The Wilding, and Alan Heathcock’s electrifying collection Volt.…
Read MoreTRY THIS experiment at your school or place of work: Rank order people by how much they gossip, putting the person who gossips the most on top.…
Read MoreThree ladies and a guy: it could almost work as a spin-off sitcom to the three guys blog. The four of us got to talking about Jennifer Egan, and to be honest, I’m a little obsessed.…
Read More1. You love the book, not the writer. You don’t care about the writer. They could be a talking gazelle. You don’t care.…
Read MoreJames Boice’s The Good and the Ghastly was released by Scribner this week. It’s his third novel and it’s completely different from either of his previous books, MVP and NoVA. …
Read MoreMy only previous experience with reading Hijuelos was The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, which really is a fine novel, with a powerful sense of pathos for this aging musician, drunkenly reliving his past.…
Read MoreI want you to know that you have my permission to read anything you want. No, don’t thank me. I’m very generous that way.…
Read MoreDH: Kate, in my first post on your new novel, The Astral, I said that the most important subject in fiction is marriage.…
Read MoreHoly Water James P. Othmer Friend of the blog, JPO’s enormously fun satire is one of my recommendations for paperback reading this summer.…
Read MoreJust like it says in the headline. If you aren’t familiar, you could read any or all of these: The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht Part One The Tigers Wife by Tea Obreht Part Two The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht Part Three Interview with Tea Obreht Here’s part of what the Orange Prize Site has to say: Bettany Hughes, Chair of Judges, said: “‘The Tiger’s Wife is an exceptional book and Téa Obreht is a truly exciting new talent.…
Read More1) State of Wonder Ann Patchett “[A] superbly rendered novel[.][…]Patchett’s portrayal is as wonderful as it is frightening and foreign. Patchett exhibits an extraordinary ability to bring the horrors and the wonders of the Amazon jungle to life, and her singular characters are wonderfully drawn.…
Read MoreLA Noire looks like about the only video game I’d be interested in. This is even better,...
Read MoreCarmela Ciuraru was kind of enough to answer my questions about her wonderful new book, Nom De...
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