Criticism
… at New York Magazine , and one could look at his forthcoming book Hothouse , which Simon & Schuster will publish … rapturous, garnering the number-one slot for August’s Indie Next list. But Hothouse ’s predicament begins with its … publishers, “it pays to begin at the end, with their memorials, each a perfectly tuned tribute to an inimitable man.” …
Fiction
… his mother. He told her he was. Everett could feel himself coming back; the sensation was like being poured slowly into … microphones, trying to record the details of each other’s bodies, listening through the skin. “We still smell like … At times like these he went to his iceberg, but he also went there when he was especially homesick, when he …
Criticism
… structure of The Wary Fugitives , in a fascinating way, becomes itself an image of the book’s confrontation with this … About God , in 1919, and who gave the Fugitives their steadiest hand; then Allen Tate, who introduced the group to … is crucial to the book’s design and utility, for as Rubin points out, “To change the economic mode without first …
Criticism
… overlay of her adult voice on her childhood narrative reveals ironic aspects of the protagonist’s … needs help at home. She hires vibrant and creative Sadie, who is viewed as a “celebrity” because she sings original, simple compositions and ballads of a bygone era on the local radio …
Fiction
… stop feeling sorry for himself he, Antonio Vieri, would become famous for it throughout Florence (they lived in … “Go—what is the expression?— fornicate with your own bodies, ” he told them. Antonio Vieri had learned this … groceries for him, then Antonio Vieri would let them in, also no questions asked, and eat their food. Then, if they …
Criticism
… , the year’s best Halloween costumes , as well as a techie compilation of pop culture’s finest moments . Although there … Times, Publisher’s Weekly, or Saint Louis Post-Dispatch. 6 points: Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel 4 points: A Gate at the … Trevor The Museum of Innocence, by Orhan Pamuk 1 point: 2666, by Roberto Bolaño Amigoland, by Oscar Casares The …