No Thanks, Nobel

November 18: “I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.”  

The Marcel Wave

November 16: “The vogue has risen into a cult; and the cult, embracing the cultured masses, has deepened into a wave…”  

We All Sleep in the Same Room

In Paul Rome’s rousing debut novel, a New York labor lawyer grows intensely attached to his cases (an abused receptionist, a teacher who fears deportation) and his young new assistant.  A taut and stylistically vanguard legal drama.

Faraway Love

November 15: “It is as though I fall into something from which there is no return — No road back –”