Sometimes you come away from reading a highly entertaining book that gives you a renewed sense of hope and understanding. I think of them as books […]
Lifted by Greatness
This is one for the heart-breakingly beautiful list. In his stunning, richly-layered debut, Karim Dimechkie’s Lifted by the Great Nothing tells an immigrant story full of humor and […]
A Possible Life
I took a chair to the beach to read the last quarter of Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins because it demanded to be finished. While […]
On Memorial Day
I wasn’t prepared to like Redeployment by Phil Klay as much as I did. The first story, from which the collection title is taken, is about […]
Throwing Heat Like a Woman
While you’re waiting for the season opener, read local author, Susan Petrone’s new novel, Throw Like a Woman and join Brenda Haversham, a recently divorced […]
Office Intrigue
You can tell that Jonas Karlsson is a playwright by his spare writing. While it’s true that good writers show and don’t tell their stories, […]
Like Gone Girl
If you were intrigued by the multiple perspectives and psycopathic characters found in Gone Girl, I recommend Peter Swanson’s The Kind Worth Killing. In an […]
Black Lives Matter
To celebrate Black History Month, Matchmakers tweeted a recommendation for each weekday using the eight-word review model. If you’re not on Twitter, you can read […]
It’s about the Journey
With the sponsorship of his village, Ajatashatru Oghash Rathod travels to Paris to purchase a new bed of nails from Ikea, and so begins The […]
