Scott Spinelli is a writer and stand-up comedian. You can find his debut novel, Congratulations? on Amazon. Scott recently emailed us his WWFIL and I went into blogger shock because nobody has ever send us one before.…
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These are the writers who were discoveries to me in 2012. Their books made the world new. Made me want to start exploring again.…
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2012 was one of the best book years I can remember. So much great stuff crossed my desk this year, and I still haven’t touched some of the year’s most talked about fiction– Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son, Louise Erdrich’s The Round House, A.M…
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You reach “character” in fiction by showing how it configures the world around it. It’s as if the events in the world were the envelope but the letter inside is the person.…
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The Patrick Melrose Novels – Edward St. Aubyn The Hologram for the King – Dave Eggers May We Be Forgiven – A.M.…
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“Invierno” is the penultimate story by Junot Diaz, and the fourth, that I’m going to review....
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Remember The Imperfectionists? This book is like that but one-thousand times more amazing. Impossible, I know. & Sons by David Gilbert is the one book you must read, if you read a book in 2013.…
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I can see a point in reading the last story in This Is How You Lose Her first. It’s the master story from which all the other stories in this collection are derived, like brilliant fictional shards.…
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After I read David Gilbert’s “Member Guest” in the New Yorker a few weeks ago, I began to pine for a copy of & Sons, the forthcoming novel that I believe the story is taken from.…
Read MoreDirected by David O. Russell Starring: Robert DeNiro, Bradley Cooper, and Jennifer Lawrence I didn’t read this novel when it came out, it seemed impenetrable.…
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“Flaca” isn’t the real name of the woman in this story. It’s the nickname given to her by her boyfriend. It’s an interesting claim of possession, to rename the person you are in a relationship with.…
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