Ulysses in America

by | Aug 7, 2013 | Book Reviews

August 7: On this day in 1934, the U.S. Court of Appeals allowed James Joyce’s Ulysses into America. This enabled Random House to issue the first U.S. edition, over a decade after Sylvia Beach’s original Paris edition, and after a decade of American...

Turn Around Bright Eyes

by | Aug 7, 2013 | Book Reviews

After the untimely death of his wife, rock music critic Rob Sheffield moved to New York City to restart and rebuild — and started assuaging his grief through karaoke, as revealed in this touching memoir.

& Sons

by | Aug 7, 2013 | Book Reviews

A hermetic genius questions the character of his heirs and the legacy of his literary masterpiece, Ampersand, in this adept tale of the compelling reasons behind why we write.