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Written by Sarah Boslaugh
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
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Each essay is self-contained, making it possible to choose those most relevant to your own interests.
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Written by Sarah Boslaugh
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
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How Fiction Works is a marvelously readable appreciation of how Wood's favorite writers achieve their effects.
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Written by Michael Munro
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009 |
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In spite of its brooding subject matter, the novel maintains a lyrical air throughout, with prose that often borders on poetry.
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Written by Sarah Boslaugh
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009 |
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If I'm less than celebratory
about Man in the Dark, it's because
Auster has written many better books and seems content in this one to coast on
his reputation.
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Written by Sarah Boslaugh
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009 |
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McCall Smith explores the web of human relations with particular focus on the question of
what is truth, and whether honesty is always the best policy.
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Written by Andrea Braun
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009 |
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The tone of A Prayer for the Dying reminds me
of Stephen King's The Gunfighter…if The Gunfighter
were actually entertaining or interesting.
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Written by Laura Hamlett
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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 |
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In an instant,
the book becomes something to reread, reinterpret and rethink.
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Written by Laura Hamlett
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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 |
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Rather than plan for college in
the fall, James spends his days trolling the internet, looking for the perfect
house in the middle of America.
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Written by Laura Hamlett
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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 |
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I was repulsed by the book's narrator, and the
more I read, the less I liked him.
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Written by Andrea Braun
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Tuesday, 02 June 2009 |
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The book is an unusual point of view for a cultural history of sorts that is also a guilt-free piece of chick lit.
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Written by Sarah Boslaugh
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 |
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The border between independent and studio production has always been permeable, and from the earliest years of film people have gone back and forth between the two worlds.
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Written by Laura Hamlett
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Stefan Merrill Block's elegant prose kept me turning the pages.
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