Category: Books

August 30, 2007

>After This by Alice McDermott

>I heard Alice McDermott read from this book before it was published, at Sewanee in the summer of 2006. I’d read a couple of…
July 8, 2007

>God is Dead, by Ron Currie, Jr.

>The front cover of this fine small book (official publication date: July 9, 2007) says coyly that it is “fiction.” Is it a collection…
July 4, 2007

>Falling Man, by Don DeLillo

>I didn’t care much for Falling Man by Don DeLillo. There is some fantastic writing, especially in the description of the horror of the…
June 3, 2007

>Time Travel

>Friday evening (June 1) was the launch party (and official publication date) for Logan Ward‘s See You in a Hundred Years, the book about…
June 1, 2007

>Winter of Different Directions, by Steven J. McDermott

>Today is the last day of Short Story Month. I didn’t even come close to reading the 20 books I was aiming for. I…
May 29, 2007

>Spit Baths, by Greg Downs

>More Short Story Month: The stories in Greg Downs’s Spit Baths are filled with oddball characters and twisted relationships, often with an absent father…
May 22, 2007

>See You in a Hundred Years, by Logan Ward

>Taking a little break from Short Story Month . . . Heather and Logan Ward and their son Luther moved from New York to…
May 18, 2007

>Uke Rivers Delivers, by R.T. Smith

>More Short Story Month. Although I first knew of R.T. Smith as a poet and the editor of Shenandoah, he’s also published numerous short…
May 13, 2007

>Things Kept, Things Left Behind, by Jim Tomlinson

>More Short Story Month. Today’s collection is Things Kept, Things Left Behind by Jim Tomlinson. I got this book when it came out last…
April 29, 2007

>Wake Wake Wake, by Valerie Nieman

>It’s still poetry month and this weekend I read Valerie Nieman’s Wake Wake Wake. When I first saw the title I liked it–the repetition…