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…
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Not Buying It
To enjoy Kat Rosenfield’s young-adult novel Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone, you have to buy into the conceit that a pretty, blonde, recent college grad can disappear for two months without anyone raising an…
Heavy Metal Boys
The best thing about Gillian Flynn’s Dark Objects is that it allowed me to wax nostalgically about the Satanic Panic of the 80s, a phenomenon I had completely forgotten until this book. I don’t know…
I want more books about female architects
I mentioned recently on Book Riot that I’m a sucker for epistolary novels. You write a novel in book/journal form and I’m gonna read it. It’s kind of how I cannot resist anything featuring an…
Somethin’ to Do
Wade Salem is a drifty, drug-dealing, storytelling, sometime musician. He’s fascinating, if you can experience him from a distance. He’s not the man you’d want as your father-figure, which is the case for the unnamed…