by bertbaby | Jun 19, 2014 | Book Reviews
June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein.
by bertbaby | Jun 18, 2014 | Book Reviews
The “Pope of Trash” talks about hitting the road and discovering America in his hitchhiking adventure Carsick.
by bertbaby | Jun 18, 2014 | Book Reviews
Why one of science fiction’s most ambitious biographies proves one of its most essential.
by bertbaby | Jun 18, 2014 | Book Reviews
Megan Abbott took her genius for modern noir to the cheerleading squad with Dare Me, but her latest novel ventures into even more psychologically compelling territory, as a mysterious wave of seizures among teenage girls sweeps through an unsuspecting town.
by bertbaby | Jun 18, 2014 | Book Reviews
This posthumous novel from award-winning journalist Michael Hastings is poignant evidence of a great fiction career cut off by his untimely death. A scathing, funny, rollicking look at the end of an era for print reporters, drawing on the author’s own...
by bertbaby | Jun 18, 2014 | Book Reviews
What’s the line between a writer’s life and a writer’s truth? Two novelists pursue the “$64,000 question.”
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