Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
When a deeply-flawed tell-all biography of the late artist X is released, her widow, CM Lucca,...
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Author: Jason Chambers
On the Horizon: February 2023
I’ve got a pile of books on my desk and in my e-reader, so let’s take a look at what...
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time.…
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The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Man on the Run story has become something of an archetype for the modern thriller. or is it a cliché?…
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Godspeed by Nickolas Butler
Bart, Teddy, and Cole are the team behind True Triangle Construction, a small-time outfit struggling to get over the hump to real projects.…
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Fugitives of the Heart by William Gay
Fugitives of the Heart is the last of William Gay’s posthumous, stolen novels. You can read the story about that in the introduction by Sonny Brewer, a welcome addition to the literature on Gay.…
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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A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain Giveaway
“A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain is a rich, haunting, original novel that captures...
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Alice Munro
As you’re no doubt aware, Alice Munro has received the Nobel Prize for Literature. We...
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Happyland Giveaway
Did you read Jim Ryan’s review of J. Robert Lennon’s Happyland the other day? If not,...
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The Never List Giveaway
We hope you read Koethi Zan’s WWFIL earlier this week, and that Billy Pilgrim’s review...
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Month of the Gadfly
Courtesy of Houghton Mifflin: To celebrate the paperback release of her acclaimed debut novel, The...
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Giveaway:Middle Men by Jim Gavin
JR’s been raving about Middle Men, the debut collection from Jim Gavin since October, at least. If you need a reminder, read what he said about Play the Man, Illuminati and Bermuda.…
Read MoreI decided to write or perish – James Salter
We’ve spilled some ink on James Salter in the recent past, including his recent receipt of the PEN/Malamud Award. Now Open Road is releasing two of his earlier novels in e-format.…
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James Salter to Receive 2012 PEN/Malamud Award
James 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.…
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Story Prize Finalists
The finalists for this year’s Story Prize are The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo (Scribner), We Others by Steven Millhauser (Knopf), and Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman (Lookout Books).…
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LA Noire: The Collected Stories
LA Noire looks like about the only video game I’d be interested in. This is even better,...
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Interview with Carmela Ciuraru
Carmela Ciuraru was kind of enough to answer my questions about her wonderful new book, Nom De...
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