Praying Drunk by Kyle Minor
About two-thirds through Praying Drunk, a widow and seasoned survivor of missionary tragedies...
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Month: May 2014
The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker
It’s that time of year again, worrying about your body looking good in a bathing suit, making sure...
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Why We Love What We Do – Scott Esposito – Two Lines Press
Recently, I was taken aback by the outpouring of remembrances on Twitter that followed the death...
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American Innovations by Rivka Galchen
Rivka Galchen tells stories about characters who obsess over strangers; who cling to things that...
Read MoreCartwheel Giveaway
It seems strange that Jennifer Dubois is not a household name by now. Her novel Cartwheel is just out in paperback this week, and there is no excuse for not reading it, because we’re giving away 3 three copies to the first...
Read MoreJennifer duBois Q&A with David Ebershoff
David Ebershoff: In Cartwheel you give us four characters – Lily, the foreign exchange student in Buenos Aires arrested for murdering her roommate; her father; Eduardo, the prosecutor determined to convict her; and Sebastien,...
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When We Fell In Love – Jennifer duBois
When I was a child, I was drawn to the knotty questions posed by Natalie Babbitt books: if you had...
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First 1000 Words – Cartwheel by Jennifer duBois
There was, of course, no possibility that Lily had actually been involved in any of this; Andrew’s...
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Funny Once by Antonya Nelson
I requested Funny Once from Bloomsbury. I had the feeling, that all bibliophiles have from time to...
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Dept of Speculation by Jenny Offill
The title of this novel comes from the return address that the married couple in this wafer thin...
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When We Fell In Love – Richard Kramer
When did I fall in love? So often, too easily. Looking back, I see myself as a pre-teen Chet...
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How Evan Broke His Head by Garth Stein
We meet Evan at Tracy’s funeral and we are given the following facts: Tracy and Evan used to date,...
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Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet by Amara Lakhous
Being an animal person I couldn’t resist picking up Algerian born writer’s latest novel...
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To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
The themes of truth, meaning and self-knowledge all stem, in Joshua Ferris’s latest novel, from...
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When We Fell In Love – Jaime Clarke
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Franklin W. Dixon, author of the Hardy Boys...
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When We Fell In Love – Max Neely-Cohen
Even though I did not fall in love with writing until I was 19, I always loved books. From...
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The Most Dangerous Book by Kevin Birmingham
The Most Dangerous Book, The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses, should be understood as broader...
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Interview with Novelist Steve Ulfelder
I picked up Steve Ulfelder’s first crime novel Purgatory Chasm shortly after it was...
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And the Dark Sacred Night by Julia Glass
In 2002, Julia Glass won the National Book Award for Three Junes, a rare accomplishment for a...
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