Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
Tom McCarthy’s latest book Satin Island exists in a glorious new realm of writing between a novel, a narrative manifesto, a treatise, and a test. Written in the form of a bureaucratic report, Satin...
Tom McCarthy’s latest book Satin Island exists in a glorious new realm of writing between a novel, a narrative manifesto, a treatise, and a test. Written in the form of a bureaucratic report, Satin...
Those who read and liked Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life are bound to like its companion piece, A God in Ruins. If you have not read the former you will be introduced to memorable...
Luke Mann was 13-years-old when his brother Josh overdosed on heroin. He opens Lord Fear, a memoir of his brother’s life, at Josh’s funeral because, “I once read a Philip Roth novel that begins...
Mark Z. Danielewski has an aura around him. His exceptional first novel House of Leaves remains one of the finest examples of “cult” literature out there, shrouded in mystery but still possessing a glut...
The premise of Anne Enright’s The Green Road has been told countless times before. Rosaleen Madigan is the mother of four independent, self-deprecating children, each of whom live independently around the globe as they...
Per Petterson is the author of seven novels, including the acclaimed Out Stealing Horses, a best book of 2007 and subsequently published in 50 languages. His first novel in nearly five years is a...
There is a great deal of lurid and very little cute in Adam Thirlwell’s newest novel. It takes the form of an interior monologue by the unnamed narrator who admits to depression but much...
Win a signed copy of Willie Nelson’s autobiography in June’s book giveaway. I grew up with Willie Nelson. My dad moved our family from Poughkeepsie, New York to Austin, Texas in the mid-1970s, when...
In My Sunshine Away, M.O. Walsh mingles a couple of old standbys: a tale of obsessive love and its perils, and a whodunit. After he stirs in an outwardly idyllic middle-class Baton Rouge neighborhood,...