I was pretty tempted to dismiss Adelle Waldman’s The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. as one of those annoying, pointless books steeped in its own Brooklynness and thus published because if there’s anything Brooklyn writers…
Browsing Category Books
We Sinners
The Rovaniemi family of Michigan are the stars of Hannah Pylväinen’s “novel” We Sinner. What’s with the quotes? They might have slapped the label novel on the cover of this one but it sure as…
Porky’s Meets Snidely Whiplash
So, Tampa by Alissa Nutting, as far as I can tell, is the buzz book of the summer. A young, beautiful married woman takes a job as a middle school English teacher so she can…
Let the Dark Flower Blossom
I would like to state for the record that if I had to crawl across a desert of broken glass to read a new Norah Labiner book, I totally would. There is something about her…
Killer poets
Before I tell you about Max Barry’s wonderful, enthralling new novel Lexicon, I have to tell you a story about my sister, Ericka and a reading we went to once. This is tangentially related to…
The Golem & The Jinni
The further away I get from The Golem and The Jinni by Helene Wecker, the more I like it. When I first finished the book a month or so ago I was all “eh, that…