by bertbaby | Aug 4, 2013 | Book Reviews
The rise and fall of the ancient Greek metropolis is marvelously reimagined in Ben Stroud’s debut story collection, as it traverses the globe from Berlin to Lake Michigan.
by bertbaby | Aug 3, 2013 | Book Reviews
The newest addition to Graywolf Press’s “Art of” series, this revealing study probes the delicate construction of fictional relationships – between lovers, friends, enemies, and even writer and reader, drawing examples from Toni Morrison, D.H....
by bertbaby | Aug 3, 2013 | Book Reviews
August 3: Flannery O’Connor died on this day in 1964, from lupus and attendant problems. O’Connor’s fiction continues to hold its place, but many readers rank her letters as highly. “There she stands,” writes O’Connor scholar Sally...
by bertbaby | Aug 2, 2013 | Book Reviews
Divided loyalties can make for passionate drama.
by bertbaby | Aug 2, 2013 | Book Reviews
Writer and sinologist Simon Leys’ timely essay collection tackles pertinent issues in the era of globalization – namely, the future of Belgium, the Cambodian genocide, and the far-reaching impact of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
by bertbaby | Aug 2, 2013 | Book Reviews
August 2: Raymond Carver died on this day in 1988, aged fifty. Although Carver’s stories are ranked far above his poems, he published a half-dozen collections of poetry and spent what he knew to be his last months on a new one. This last collection inspired...
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