Category: book review

February 26, 2017

Book Review: Letters to a Young Writer, by Colum McCann

Letters to a Young Writer by Colum McCann HarperCollins, April 2017 This is a short book of writing advice by one of my favorite…
October 4, 2012

Los Angeles Review: Review of What the Zhang Boys Know

A pleasant surprise. The Los Angeles Review, which is a terrific journal published by Red Hen Press, posted a review by Ed Bennett of…
November 19, 2011

>Book Review: Dispatches from the Peninsula by Chris Tharp

> Dispatches From the Peninsula: Six Years In South Korea  Chris Tharp Signal 8 Press, 2011 I arrived in Seoul, South Korea, in early…
September 5, 2011

>Book Review: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet by Cameron Conaway

> Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet Cameron Conaway  Threed Press, 2011 Cameron Conaway is a poet (a book and a chapbook forthcoming in…
August 19, 2011

>Book Review: To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal

> To Be Sung Underwater Tom McNeal Little Brown, 2011 I couldn’t put it down. Seriously. I’ve never resorted to that cliché before, I…
August 8, 2011

>Review of Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks

> Lost Memory of Skin Russell Banks Ecco, September 27, 2011 As difficult as it is to have sympathy for this novel’s main character—the…
July 20, 2011

>Book Review: Eddie’s War, by Carol Fisher Saller

> Eddie’s War Carol Fisher Saller namelos, August 1, 2011 What a pleasure this was to read! Eddie’s War is aimed at young readers…
June 3, 2011

>Book Review: The Moral Lives of Animals, by Dale Peterson

> The Moral Lives of Animals Dale Peterson Bloomsbury Press (2011) Having read some recent animal behavior books (such as Temple Grandin’s Animals Make…
May 10, 2011

>Review of Shanghai Dancing by Brian Castro

> Shanghai Dancing by Brian CastroKaya Press, 2009 As lyrical as a book can get, this one will be a tough read for some. The…
April 27, 2011

>Book Review: A Dog Named Slugger by Leigh Brill

> A Dog Named SluggerLeigh BrillBell Bridge Books, 2010 I suppose I’ve always been curious about service dogs. From an early age I was…