Bandstand Business

by | Aug 6, 2013 | Book Reviews

August 5: American Bandstand debuted on this day in 1957. While not the first television dance party, the Philadelphia-based show was the first to be broadcast live, daily, and nationally. The show “signaled the arrival of teenage culture in the...

Byzantium

by | Aug 4, 2013 | Book Reviews

The rise and fall of the ancient Greek metropolis is marvelously reimagined in Ben Stroud’s debut story collection, as it traverses the globe from Berlin to Lake Michigan. 

The Art of Intimacy

by | Aug 3, 2013 | Book Reviews

The newest addition to Graywolf Press’s “Art of” series, this revealing study probes the delicate construction of fictional relationships – between lovers, friends, enemies, and even writer and reader, drawing examples from Toni Morrison, D.H....

The Letters of Flannery O’Connor

by | Aug 3, 2013 | Book Reviews

August 3: Flannery O’Connor died on this day in 1964, from lupus and attendant problems. O’Connor’s fiction continues to hold its place, but many readers rank her letters as highly. “There she stands,” writes O’Connor scholar Sally...