The Lower Quarter by Elise Blackwell – The First 1000 Words
Clay pulled the second drawer of his filing cabinet out as far as it would go and removed from the...
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Author: Three Guys One Book
A Discussion of William Eggleston’s Guide
Dennis Haritou: JR, I had come across a remark about William Eggleston to the effect that he was a...
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First 1000 Words – Demigods on Speedway by Aurelie Sheehan
“My city is in danger. It’s out of hand, we’re overrun—the dealers coming up from Mexico and...
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First 1000 Words – The Looking Glass Brother by Peter von Ziegesar
March 12, 1995 New York City The phone at my desk rang and a crusty, vaguely familiar,...
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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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First 1000 Words – Echo of the Boom by Maxwell Neely-Cohen
They were all born after the fall of the wall but before the fall of the towers. Eight years...
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1000 Words – Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole
On the way home from the airport, at the roundabout of Ikeja bus stop, where the late afternoon...
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First 1000 Words – Nest of Worlds by Marek S. Huberath
The Only Version All things defined, distinct. Black and white, zero and one. Here is song and...
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First 1000 Words – The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris
Chapter 1 Chani. Baruch. November 2008 – London The bride stood like a pillar of salt, rigid under...
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Giveaways
We’ve got three books to give to our readers this week: Our Frail Blood – This is a finished copy. Read this week’s review of OFB Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls, David Sedaris Essays (on sale 4-13) Advanced Reading Copy The Shanghai Factor, Charles McCarry (on sale 6-13) If you want one, drop a line to jr@threeguysonebook.com.…
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When We Fell In Love – Lydia Crichton
It’s a funny thing, this love of writing. For me, it’s a passion that involves an unquenchable thirst for learning coupled with a fascination for the intricacies of expression: a burning desire to find the exact right word.…
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When We Fell In Love – Helen Sedwick
I think I’ll blame my parents. My mother was an actress. My father a director. To them, everyone had a STORY.…
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When We Fell In Love – Darryl Shelly
Darryl Shelly’s life reads like a page out of Goodfellas, mixed with a juicy dollop of Hollywood glitz, glamor and depravity.…
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When We Fell in Love – Lane Heymont
Lane Heymont is the author of The Freedman and The Pharaoh’s Staff (Sunbury Press/February 2013). Inspired by Frederick Douglass and the slave narratives passed down by his parents as well as stories of the Holocaust, Heymont explores the damaging effects of racism in past, present and future, but that also addresses the lack of minority and mixed race characters in the fantasy genre by introducing a diverse palette of characters torn between encrusted beliefs and the healing power of unity when we rise beyond prejudice to fight for freedom, equality, and human dignity against all odds.…
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When We Fell In Love – Harrison Demchick
Julia Drake is a literary publicist in L.A., and a longtime friend of Three Guys One Book. She turned me on to several authors in 2012, a couple of whom wrote essays for our When We Fell In Love Series.…
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When We Fell In Love – Ben Schrank
I’ve been friends with Ben Schrank since before electricity. We’re lucky enough to...
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The Best of 2012-ish
The Patrick Melrose Novels – Edward St. Aubyn The Hologram for the King – Dave Eggers May We Be Forgiven – A.M.…
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When We Fell In Love – Antoine Wilson
It is supremely cool that Mr. Wilson digs Auster, especially the NY Trilogy, as it too shaped me as a human and writer.…
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NW by Zadie Smith Conclusion
DH: The last half of NW, almost exactly, comprises the sections “Host”, which I believe is the largest division in the book, and two smaller sections.…
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When We Fell In Love – David Abrams
JC: If you haven’t heard anything about David Abrams’s new novel Fobbit, releasing this week, you must just be returning from your Summer in the Hamptons, or some other escape from the real world.…
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A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
JC: As A Hologram for the King opens, Alan Clay has, as many literary protagonists do, arrived at a moment of truth.…
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NW by Zadie Smith Part 2 “Guest”
DH: It’s a strange thing to consider the life of a character as an obituary. In the first section of Zadie Smith’s NW, called “Visitation”, the local buzz of the day is that a 32 year-old man named Felix was killed on the street in a mugging.…
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NW by Zadie Smith, Part 1
JR: DH and I have decided to take this book in a few parts, and start with the first section, Visitation.…
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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
DH: Recently my streaming service made the first season of I Love Lucy available and I caught a few episodes of primitive 1950’s TV, valuable because primitive.…
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