Understudies by Ravi Mangla
I am hesitant to read novels under 200 pages, especially when it is fed to me one spoonful at a...
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Author: Jason Rice
The Land of Steady Habits by Ted Thompson
I bet Ted Thompson blends in, wears nice glasses, and dresses like Don Draper on holiday. One...
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The Circle by Dave Eggers
It has gotten a lot easier to love Dave Eggers’ fiction. I read his “memoir” and experienced...
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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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Want Not by Jonathan Miles
So many things have changed since 9-11. Nothing really changed; we just made choices, and some of...
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Tampa by Alissa Nutting
Tampa held my attention, but it was very difficult to read because I couldn’t accept the main...
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Distracted by Feeling
This post was originally published in open.salon.com In my review of Odds Against Tomorrow by...
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Pile of Awesome
I’m still waiting on the new Tom Rachman, it’s out there, don’t worry (I’m not worried, just...
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Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich
I’ve seen the future, and Cormac McCarthy has written it. The Road is the only novel about the end...
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The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
I’m hard pressed to find a character with a more vexing charm than Don Tillman, a genetics professor specializing in Asperger’s, and the spectrum of personality disorders.…
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Ten Things I’ve Learnt About Love by Sarah Butler
A box of ARCs arrived and as I was making a reading pile, this book’s red cover grabbed me. Inside was a letter from the editor, and I immediately took it to the couch and gave it my full attention (the writing whispered of Elliott Holt, more on that in a minute).…
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Love Rehab: A Novel in Twelve Steps By Jo Piazza
I love it when a publicist knows exactly what I want to read, and just sends it. I told a woman very close to me that I was reading this book, and she laughed, knowing it is at least 180 degrees away from what I normally love.…
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You Are One Of Them Giveaway
Short of selling Elliott Holt soap on a rope, we’re giving away 5 ARC’s of her debut novel, You Are One of Them.…
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You Are One of Them by Elliott Holt
So what do I do now? I spent the last two days either on a plane, or with this amazing debut novel.…
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The Morels by Christopher Hacker
The Soho press catalog came my way and aside from all the crime fiction, there was this interesting book about a writer/artist, his family, and how fucked up things get when a certain “novel” is published.…
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"Cartography" and "Paranoia" by Said Sayrafiezadeh
The first two stories from the collection Brief Encounters With the Enemy by Said Sayrafiezadeh Dial Press 08/2013 Said Sayrafiezadeh wrote a great memoir a while back called, When Skateboards Will Be Free.…
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What The Family Needed by Steven Amsterdam
In Steven Amsterdam’s debut collection, Things We Didn’t See Coming, he entertained me with a dystopian reality that wasn’t quite The Road bleak, but had its moments of despair.…
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An Embarrassment of Riches
Within reach are copies of the following, Pacific by Tom Drury, Grove 5/13. Alexander Maksik, A Marker to Measure Drift, Knopf, 7/13.…
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After Visiting Friends: A Son’s Story by Michael Hainey
At this point everyone knows I rarely read non-fiction, something about leading a non-fiction life, yeah-yeah. When my pal at S&S asked me what I was reading I told her, “& Sons by David Gilbert.”…
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& Sons by David Gilbert
By the time this book is on the shelves, you will be swimming in all sorts of things. The “summer reads” will be everywhere, and Fall ’13 will be right around the corner.…
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& Sons by David Gilbert
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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Books to Watch
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 MoreSilver Linings Playbook, the movie
Directed 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.…
Read MoreDon Begs To Be Alone
Don Draper wants to be alone. Episode: Shut The Door…Have a Seat Mad Men Season Three This is the one episode where a casual viewer of Mad Men could sit down and see every possible angle of the show.…
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