Victory by Yu Hua
“Victory”, which can be found in the August 26th issue of the New Yorker, opens like a venerable...
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Month: August 2013
Interview with Stephane Michaka
Stephane Michaka is a gracious and thoughtful French writer whose novel about the complex...
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Enon by Paul Harding
Enon. An abbreviation of a Latin word? A biblical name? Here it is the name of a small town in New...
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Nostalgia by Dennis McFarland
This Civil War-era novel explores the consequences of a decision to enlist in the Union army for a...
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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...
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Interview with Natsuo Kirino
Natsuo Kirino is the author of the recently released The Goddess Chronicle, from Canongate Books,...
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Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Night Film is suspenseful, obsessive and quirky read up to a point. The story revolves around...
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The Execution of Noa P. Singleton by Elizabeth L. Silver
Within a month of this writing, the state of Texas performed its 500th execution since 1982. That...
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An Interview with Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the widely praised memoir, When Skateboards Will be Free....
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The Salinger Contract by Adam Langer
Adam Langer has been stalking me for years, and he finally found a way to get my attention. The...
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What’s So Funny by Tim Conway
Tim Conway may be Catholic, but he is a mensch. According to the dictionary a mensch is an...
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The Abomination by Jonathan Holt
Tom Gauld, cartoonist for the book review section of The Guardian, published a piece that I think...
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& Sons by David Gilbert
Every so often, you come across something that’s the perfect hybrid of what you’re looking for. If...
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When We Fell In Love – Nick Antosca
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man...
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