One of the things I learned in the bajillion writing classes I took at The Loft is that when fiction is really good it can teach you things without ever seeming like a lecture or…
Posts tagged Fiction
Half-Blood Blues
After two, or maybe three false starts, I finally made it through Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues. Usually, I wouldn’t be so dogged in reading a book that didn’t seem to be working for me, but…
The Middlesteins
On its surface The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg is the kind of the book I dismiss out of hand. Jewish suburban ennui? Been there. A fat character wrecking her family? Done that. Unhappy marriages and…
My Favorite Novel of 2012 (unless something changes in the next five weeks)
We’re in the waning months of 2012 and I think I’ve read what will be my favorite novel of 2012. It’s Carol Rifka Brunt’s fantastic, heartbreaking, and all together wonderful Tell the Wolves I’m Home….
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Jonathan Evison Reading 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14 Magers & Quinn 3038 Hennepin Ave South Minneapolis, MN Benjamin Benjamin is not a likable guy. Even when you factor in the pity you feel for him…