Loads of Learned Lumber

WE ARE AGREED, I am going to assume, that Bret Easton Ellis is not a major American writer. This guy might be, however. Not prolific--one n...

FOR YEARS NOW, I have taken seriously fiction recommendations from The Believer , and I'm glad I have. I picked up Remainder because it...

KENT HARUF'S HOLT, Colorado will never be mistaken for Yoknapatawpha or Macondo, not having the gothic cobwebbed corners of the one nor ...

THIS BOOK, JOSHUA Robbins's first, often reminded me of "The Hollow Men" and the first and fifth sections of The Waste Land , ...

THIS ONE FELT to me a bit more like a satire, of the Peacockian variety, than a novel. It does not have the nubbly detail, the thick descrip...

GOOD GRIEF, IT'S almost April, and I have not posted since mid-January. And 2013 was such a banner year, too. Well, I was on sabbatical ...

IN ONE WAY, this book belongs to that narrow and in some respects self-indulgent genre that includes Jim Bouton's I'm Glad You Didn...