by bertbaby | Sep 11, 2013 | Book Reviews
Crime fiction expert Sarah Weinman collars fourteen groundbreaking and gripping tales of domestic suspense by women. You may know Patricia Highsmith and Shirley Jackson, but here’s your chance to rediscover Margaret Millar, Helen Nielsen, and other...
by bertbaby | Sep 11, 2013 | Book Reviews
The master ventriloquist of the American vernacular in all its comic variety.
by bertbaby | Sep 11, 2013 | Book Reviews
Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky’s fun guide to analyzing verse strays from rules and theories, instead focusing on “listening” to the rhythms of past greats, from John Keats and Emily Dickinson to Allen Ginsberg and Mina Loy.
by bertbaby | Sep 10, 2013 | Book Reviews
Our vote was unanimous: The Discover selection committee readers and I were completely taken by Hannah Kent’s moody and spellbinding debut, Burial Rites (Discover, Fall 2013). Set against a stark Icelandic landscape, a servant woman convicted of murder...
by bertbaby | Sep 10, 2013 | Book Reviews
We were gobsmaked by Eric Lundgren’s very clever, very witty, and slightly off-kilter debut novel, The Facades, in much the same way we were by Robin Sloan’s 2012 Discover selection, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. Sven Norberg’s wife is...
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