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>by Richard Yates Many people include this novel, published in 1961, on their list of best novels of the 20th Century. It reminds me…

>My latest book review (Michelle Herman’s The Middle of Everything) is up on Rain Taxi.

>I’ve returned from a trip I almost cancelled because I really wanted to be making more progress on the revisions to my novel. At…

>Not that I’ve been posting too regularly of late (I’ve been really focused on novel revisions), but I’m on my way out the door…

>It was only a few weeks ago that I saw the American Shakespeare Center production of All’s Well That End’s Well. But this past…

>by Laila Lalami What an excellent book this is. Tied brilliantly together by the opening chapter (“The Trip”), this collection (novel in stories?) reveals…

>by Amy Hempel If you’re Amy Hempel, you can get away with a book that’s only 130 pages long. Not that it wasn’t satisfying,…

>It’s not an unusual occurrence in the country. Sometimes, stretching for that next bite of juicy grass, a cow will find itself on the…

>What was it with the Elizabethans and the whole separated-twins thing? And in The Comedy of Errors, we have not one set of twins,…

>My review of Bruce Bauman’s And the Word Was is up at MoorishGirl.com. Check out the rest of Laila Lalami’s terrific site while you’re…