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...
by bertbaby | Jun 10, 2014 | Book Reviews
A pioneer woman in the field of rock and roll journalism (and late 20th century cultural criticism at large), Ellen Willis receives deserved compendium treatment, collecting her wry musings on Janis Joplin, Lou Reed, child-rearing, daytime talk shows, and defining...
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