When We Fell In Love – Alix Ohlin
Alix Ohlin has two books coming out, one after the other. She was kind enough to give us this great piece of writing.…
Read MoreAlix Ohlin has two books coming out, one after the other. She was kind enough to give us this great piece of writing.…
Read MoreDH: Having just read through Benjamin Wood’s interview on his debut novel, The Bellwether Revivals, I find that I like this gracious writer, if possible, even more than I already do.…
Read MoreHow did this novel sneak up on me? It’s a Lee Boudreaux title from Ecco, which makes it even more surprising that I didn’t read this gem in galley.…
Read Morefrom Guilt: stories by Ferdinand von Schirach There seems to be nothing left in this story except the awful qualities of other people, and how they go from sad to worse.…
Read MoreJames Salter has been selected to receive the 25th annual PEN/Malamud Award. Given annually since 1988 in honor of the late Bernard Malamud, this award recognizes a body of work that demonstrates excellence in the art of short fiction.…
Read MoreIt takes a measure of bravery to read a book. You can never be sure what you are going to encounter.…
Read Morefrom Guilt: stories by Ferdinand von Schirach Silly me, once again, the New York Times has to tell me about an author.…
Read MoreIf you can’t, as a writer, delineate a relationship in a single sentence, then you can’t do it if you take three hundred lines.…
Read MoreJR: To know me is to know I love Mad Men. It’s not even the time period; it really is more the characters and how fucked up they are.…
Read MoreIt usually goes like this: Rockstar is born not a rockstar, but to a dismal family of chicken farmers or garbage pickers or libertarians.…
Read MoreJR: Being a devout Richard Ford fan, a Frank Bascombe junkie (I had the nom de plume Frank Bascombe for over ten years, as the book reviewer at Ain’t it Cool News) , a lover all things Ford, despite what Colson Whitehead has said, and believe me, he is entitled to his opinion.…
Read MoreFrom Other People We Married: Stories, by Emma Straub “Lets go interact with some nature.” The two sisters of this story, who meet in Palm Springs for vacation, don’t really like each other.…
Read MoreThe House on Paradise Street was published in March by Short Books. I’ve never heard of the press but they look to be a small press based in London.…
Read MoreFrancois Vigneault is editor at an innovative and maverick press, Scout Books / Good Ink, which is based in cool, counter-cultural and utterly green Portland, one of my favorite places.…
Read MoreRecall the first time you saw The Indian Runner, or Rumble Fish. If you are anything like me, it was a chemical experience, and you left the theater changed right down to your fibers.…
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