by bertbaby | Apr 15, 2014 | Book Reviews
Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. James Parker calls this Dickensian coming-of-age novel “an enveloping and slightly paralyzing literary experience, such that if you submit to it in the proper spirit your...
by bertbaby | Apr 15, 2014 | Book Reviews
A tenacious journalist takes up a bold new investigation into the potential existence of divine forces and the mystical nature of faith.
by bertbaby | Apr 15, 2014 | Book Reviews
April 15: “A page…will begin with some principles of astronomy, or the motion of the earth; then come the laws of sound…”
by bertbaby | Apr 14, 2014 | Book Reviews
Hello, and welcome. Are you the director? Oh, the PA. Oh fine. Olivia. You can call me Terri. I spell it with an ‘i’ –not that you could tell from hearing it, of course. Oh, no — you don’t have to take your...
by bertbaby | Apr 14, 2014 | Book Reviews
Frank Black, frontman for the Pixies, has written a transgressive historical fiction with shades of Thomas Pynchon (focused as it is on the history of explosives and cinematic pornography), all set in a hallucinatory Edwardian Europe.
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