by bertbaby | Jun 11, 2014 | Book Reviews
A journalist takes up a dangerous assignment: forging the coveted documents which secure Holocaust reparations for Jewish-Americans. Debuting novelist Boris Fishman places caustic humor on South Brooklyn tongues in this fearlessly sharp Discover Great New Writers...
by bertbaby | Jun 11, 2014 | Book Reviews
June 11: On this day in 1921 George Bernard Shaw wrote to Sylvia Beach to decline her invitation to pre-order a copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses.
by bertbaby | Jun 10, 2014 | Book Reviews
Already a legend in his native Egypt, Sonallah Ibrahim has quietly emerged as one of our most riveting authors in translation. His latest – from the perspective of an 11-year old boy living with his widowed dad – finds poignancy in tragedy and vivid...
by bertbaby | Jun 10, 2014 | Book Reviews
When a shy high schooler crashes with his Brooklynite sister over one summer, he finds the unexpected love of his life: a red-headed, transgendered beauty named Gillian. Comic artist Ariel Schrag’s debut novel triumphs in coupling evergreen youthful amour ...
by bertbaby | Jun 10, 2014 | Book Reviews
A foolish-but-fiercely competitive Portuguese publisher seeks fame and fortune during the breakout of a wild (downright absurdist) war in Goncalo Alvares’ offbeat character study, a pastiche recalling the heights of Roberto Bolano and Pier Paolo...
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