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Financial Collapse Plus War Plus Suicide Plus Closeted Men Equals OK Novelnew
Finished in September 2008, the very week that Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, Union Atlantic offers a lucid perspective on the manner in which the greed and venality of a privileged few can drive the economy toward and beyond the brink of collapse.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Isenhart |
02-24-2010 |
Fiction
New Novel Situates a Worst-Case Scenario in Western North Carolinanew
In his new novel, One Second After, Bill Forstchen paints a distinctly local picture of post-electric life. A history professor who's penned 40-some books, he imagines the end of the world as we know it, telling a tale of what he thinks it would be like in Western North Carolina.
Mountain Xpress |
Jon Elliston |
07-10-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
In Federal Prison, Quentin Carter Wrote Best-Selling Novelsnew
While serving time for a drug offense, Quentin Carter made a name for himself as a best-selling author of street lit.
The Pitch |
Peter Rugg |
06-23-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
David Wroblewski's Debut Novel Is Brilliantnew
Elegance and simplicity grace every page of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle as David Wroblewski finds authentic power through well-crafted scenes and strong character development. Here is fiction with the truth of memoir.
Boise Weekly |
Bill English |
05-27-2009 |
Fiction
Boise Author Prepares to Let Loose His Second Novelnew
Writer and Boise State University professor Brady Udall talks about his new book, how he was discovered and the life of polygamists.
Boise Weekly |
Christian Winn |
05-27-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Colm Toibin's New Novel Is Quiet and Thankfully Unsentimentalnew
Brooklyn is a quiet, charming novel written with a masterful hand about a girl struggling to understand her new emerging self in a new postwar world.
New Haven Advocate |
John Stoehr |
05-19-2009 |
Fiction
Alabama Novelist Visits the 'Devil's Garden'new
Ace Atkins found a compelling subject for his new fact-based novel, Devil's Garden, in the murder trial of silent film comic Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in 1921.
Birmingham Weekly |
Jesse Chambers |
05-05-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Bloody Good Jane Austennew
Despite his decidedly lowbrow preoccupations (zombies, martial arts, and crude jokes about balls), author Seth Grahame-Smith is a sly devil, a parodist with as strong a sense of Austen's prose stylings as of her sharp observations.
Boston Phoenix |
Clea Simon |
04-23-2009 |
Fiction
Well-to-Do Discriminationnew
The Help is a fictional expose of racial discrimination set in 1960s Jackson, Miss., told with pathos and humor.
Jackson Free Press |
Jackie Warren Tatum |
04-03-2009 |
Fiction
A South African Novelist Shows How Passivity Corruptsnew
Damon Galgut's story ambles along languidly though pleasantly enough, but ultimately never reaches a satisfying end.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joab Jackson |
03-31-2009 |
Fiction
No Bologna: An Interview with 'Knockemstiff' Author Donald Ray Pollocknew
It's hard to believe that the town of Knockemstiff, Ohio, really exists, but it's even harder to believe that some of these nasty creatures crawled from Donald Ray Pollock's head.
The Portland Mercury |
Paul Constant |
03-26-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'Land of Marvels' Foreshadows Iraq Debaclenew
John Somerville, Barry Unsworth's archaeologist hero, is a typical Edwardian abroad. He's a wealthy Englishman who means to do well by others, but in Land of Marvels he's at sea in an ocean of stones.
The Georgia Straight |
Alexander Varty |
03-23-2009 |
Fiction
Memoirist Robert Goolrick Tackles the Novelnew
Robert Goolrick, a former advertising exec turned writer, explores the difficulties of "simple" married life and the dark family landscape within which it exists in his new novel. He talks here about writing fiction, the appeal of Wisconsin and where his writing career is headed.
New York Press |
Stephanie Lee |
03-19-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Zoe Heller's 'Believers' Captivates Despite a Weak Plotnew
Heller’s treatment of fraught and contradictory emotions, together with her unabashed exploration of intellectual musings, endows the story’s eponymous believers with an all-too-rare profundity.
New York Press |
Rayyan Al-Shawaf |
03-05-2009 |
Fiction
Novelist James Kelman Captures Boyhood Just Rightnew
This story thrives in the specificity of its place and time, yet it is a childhood tale that will seem universal to the modern reader.
Charleston City Paper |
Michael Lucero |
02-11-2009 |
Fiction
