AltWeeklies Wire
'The Bible Salesman' is a Rollicking Readnew
Borrowing Scriptural tropes and themes from Southern literature and folklore, Clyde Edgerton weaves a wryly amusing Southern gothic tale about faith, the perils of gullibility and optimism and the ever-present temptation of evil.
NOW Magazine |
David Jager |
11-17-2008 |
Fiction
Irvine Welsh's Wimpy 'Crime'new
Welsh, known best for his druggy humor, gleefully scatological bent and the gruff pub vernacular of his characters, plays it amazingly straight and close to the vest in his most recent novel, Crime. So close and earnest, in fact, that you can hardly believe you're reading Welsh.
NOW Magazine |
David Jager |
09-29-2008 |
Fiction
Tags: Irvine Welsh
Paul Auster's New Novel Ruminates on Post-9/11 Family Schismsnew
Auster's new novel ruminates on the fault lines and schisms within a marriage, a family and the landscape of post-9/11 America.
NOW Magazine |
David Jager |
09-08-2008 |
Fiction
Brutal Honestynew
Firth delivers 17 exercises in the ham-fisted, brutalist fiction that has already gained him an uneasy notoriety.
NOW Magazine |
David Jager |
01-12-2007 |
Fiction
