Category: Books

April 6, 2008

>The Hanging Woods by Scott Loring Sanders

>On the one hand, The Hanging Woods, the debut novel from Scott Loring Sanders, seems unmistakably to be in the “young-adult” genre. It is…
March 26, 2008

>Guest Review: Open Me by Sunshine O’Donnell

>Guest Reviewer: Jessica Handler Salt for Their WoundsGirls and women mourn. They wail like sirens, cry culverts of tears. Mothers teach daughters to weep,…
March 23, 2008

>Grace Paley: Fidelity

> I would love this book even if the pages were blank if I thought that’s what Grace Paley wanted us to contemplate. Even…
March 9, 2008

>Guest Review: The Leper Compound by Paula Nangle

>Guest Reviewer: Susan Woodring The Leper Compound (Bellevue Literary Press, 2008) by Paula Nangle is a coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of violence,…
January 26, 2008

>Zoli by Colum McCann

>There is no story more exotic than a Gypsy tale. This one, loosely based on the life of Papusza, a Polish Gypsy singer and…
January 25, 2008

>Fellow Travellers by Thomas Mallon

>The McCarthy era is not just the backdrop for this story of forbidden love; the context of reactionary intolerance is the plot’s very fabric….
January 24, 2008

>The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men by Randy F. Nelson

>Humans aren’t mere machines, despite outward appearances. They are moved, and often discomposed, by love and loss, by faith, by regret. In this collection…
January 21, 2008

>Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón

>Daniel Alarcón’s Lost City Radio (Harper Collins 2007) is a lush, complex tale set in an unnamed country at an unknown time. Norma is…
December 24, 2007

>Surreal South, Edited by Laura Benedict and Pinckney Benedict

>Surreal South, edited by Laura Benedict and Pinckney Benedict and published by Press 53 is a pretty spectacular anthology of short fiction and poetry….
October 21, 2007

>god is not Great by Christopher Hitchens

>Subtitled: How Religion Poisons Everything. I rate this book highly mostly because I agree with it. As the subtitle suggests, religion has done far…
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