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...
by bertbaby | Sep 10, 2013 | Book Reviews
Fans of the late Irish modernist get a compact treat in this comprehensive collection of O’Brien’s short stories, that also includes his final, incomplete novel and other unpublished work.
by bertbaby | Sep 10, 2013 | Book Reviews
The master orator, Princeton man, and American president, captured in vivid description.
by bertbaby | Sep 10, 2013 | Book Reviews
September 10: “I am not insensible to natural beauty, but my emotional joys center on the improbable yet sometimes wondrous works of that tiny and accidental evolutionary twig called Homo sapiens.”
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