Category: book reviews

May 5, 2020

Recent Book Reviews in NYJB

In the past week, two of my book reviews have appeared in the New York Journal of Books, both, coincidentally, translated from Korean. First…
September 7, 2018

Book Review: Shelf Life of Happiness by Virginia Pye

Shelf Life of Happiness by Virginia Pye Press 53, October 2018 Reviewed by Clifford Garstang   Full disclosure: the author is a friend of…
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…
July 22, 2015

2 New Book Reviews

I recently read and reviewed two very different memoirs, both excellent. The first is Barefoot to Avalon by David Payne. Novelist Payne’s brother was…
June 4, 2012

Book Review: So There! by Nicole Louise Reid

So There! By Nicole Louise Reid Stephen F. Austin State University Press The stories in this surprising, slim collection by Nicole Louise Reid occupy…
March 21, 2012

>The Ethics of Book Reviewing

> Last week I saw a book review by someone I know in an online newspaper (not a literary magazine) that gets a lot…