Category: Books

>My friend Ann Barker, who lives in Chiapas, Mexico, doesn’t like Cormac McCarthy’s work. “baroque” she calls it, but she must use that term…

>It is clear from the very beginning of this fast-paced memoir (published in March 2007 by Free Press) that the author has had an…

>It’s still Poetry Month and I’m still making my way through a few collections that have accumulated on my shelves lately. It Comes To…

>I can’t let Poetry Month slip by without mentioning several collections I’ve acquired this year, mostly by friends, starting with Bill Coyle’s The God…

>I wish I had known Kurt Vonnegut and now, having read his little book, A Man Without a Country, I see that I’m going…

>I liked The Music Lesson quite a bit. I wasn’t really aware of Katharine Weber until I heard her read from her new book,…

>The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies is a beautiful book, intricate in its way, and deftly rendered character study. Set in Wales during…

>“Family stories intermingle in such ways that what happened generations ago can have an impact on seemingly irrelevant developments of the present day. The…

> This is an engaging collection of stories and novellas by the talented Chuck Wachtel. What makes it engaging is that it’s different. The…

>As noted in an earlier post (“Reading on the Road”), I really enjoyed Percival Everett’s Damned if I Do, a story collection published in…