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Dennis Cooper Meets Osamu Dazainew
Ryu Murakami isn't afraid of the horrific side of contemporary life, which he renders in writing of an almost unbearable calm serenity.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
04-10-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Piercing, Ryu Murakami
A Dream-catcher Storynew
Cummins applies a sensitive skill to the slow movements of the characters peopling the arid landscape of New Mexico and a Navajo reservation in her first novel, Yellowcake.
Baltimore City Paper |
Wendy Ward |
04-10-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Ann Cummins, yellowcake
The Long Hiatusnew
Sherman Alexie continues his 10-year break from writing novels.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
04-09-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Flight, Sherman Alexie
A Complete Twain Wrecknew
Clinch may not have rewritten the American canon, but he's created a hell of a character to remember.
Dig Boston |
Zak M. Salih |
04-04-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Finn, Jon Clinch
Jackson's Conclusions are Nothing Short of Astonishingnew
Half Life is a labyrinth of plot twists embedded with the history of twofer culture, tied together by Jackson's darkly humorous language play that mines the possibilities of campy twin culture.
Tags: Half Life, Shelley Jackson
(Borrowed From) Here, There and Everywherenew
Lethem's latest feels like a bit of literary tourism.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
03-29-2007 |
Fiction
Carefully Written, but Hard To Relate Tonew
A lost manuscript reveals a fantastical world of books in The Secret of Lost Things.
Willamette Week |
Lisa Hoashi |
03-29-2007 |
Fiction
Lethem is More Emo Than Younew
Especially coming after the arresting, atmospheric Motherless Brooklyn and the genuinely great coming-of-age story The Fortress of Solitude, Lethem's latest feels irksomely insubstantial -- but I can't write it off completely.
Dig Boston |
Stewart Mason |
03-28-2007 |
Fiction
Watching Me, Watching Younew
Security means scrutiny in Jonathan Raban's novel of post-9/11 anxieties.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Witherell |
03-28-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: surveillance, Jonathan Raban
Concerned About Racenew
Joyce Carol Oates in black and white.
Shepherd Express |
Judith Ann Moriarty |
03-26-2007 |
Fiction
A Burmese Trianglenew
Despite Connelly's clear emotional affinity for the struggle of Burmese democracy activists, she steers clear of didacticism, expertly balancing a sense of the larger political picture with details of the personal struggles of the protagonists.
Washington City Paper |
Rayyan Al-Shawaf |
03-23-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Karen Connelly, The Lizard Cage
Needs Less Joyce and More Noirnew
A Booker Prize winner writes a smart, if predictable, crime novel.
Willamette Week |
Matt Buckingham |
03-22-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Benjamin Black, Christine Falls
Dead Airnew
Lost City Radio follows the cleaving of three lives in the wake of civil war in an unnamed South American city.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Tremble |
03-20-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Daniel Alarcon, Lost City Radio
Towering Falloutnew
Eisenberg rises above the "post-9/11" hangover.
Seattle Weekly |
Karla Starr |
03-19-2007 |
Fiction
Snake Charmernew
Jim Harrison pens a companionable narrative.
Missoula Independent |
Joe Campana |
03-15-2007 |
Fiction
