Elizabeth McKenzie packs a lot into her latest novel, The Portable Veblen. It’s a commentary on mindless consumerism and the questionable ethics of big pharma. […]
My Name is Lucy Barton
Allow me to introduce you to Lucy Barton, the protagonist of Elizabeth Strout’s beautiful and poignant new novel. The reader meets Lucy as she is […]
My 15 Favorite Books from 2015 + 1
My reading tastes? A little quirky, sometimes dark, satirical, literary, or feel good–in a phrase: all over the place. I like complicated, nontraditional, flawed characters. […]
The Talented Ms. Groff
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff is the story of a marriage. Groff is admittedly ambivalent about the institution*, yet she renders both her husband […]
The Bookseller
From guest blogger, Bill R.: So I was wandering through the library stacks and I spotted a novel called The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson and since […]
Pieces of Harriet
“While the days unfold, one after the other, and the numbers all move in one direction, our lives are not linear, Harriet. We are the […]
Meet the extraordinary Undermajordomo Minor
As he proved with his earlier book, The Sisters Brothers, (the story of the last assignment of the pair of killers-for-hire), Patrick deWitt’s genius is […]
Who Are You?
You are checking into your hotel in Casablanca when your backpack containing your passport, your laptop, credit cards, and ID is stolen. You have to […]
The Kindness of Strangers
Infinite Home has both literal and metaphorical implications in Kathleen Alcott’s new novel. Landlord, Edith has chosen the tenants of her apartment building very carefully, […]
