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Fortunately, Peter Hedges Decided Against Writing A 'Serious' Booknew

Peter Hedges’ novel The Heights is crying to be filmed. I assume it will be and I recommend everyone read it before you’re forced to buy a copy with a stupid movie tie-in cover.

New Haven Advocate | Eva Geertz | 03-16-2010 | Fiction

Tags: The Heights, Peter Hedges

T.C. Boyle, Still Goading the Opinionated After All These Yearsnew

A new collection of stories is something to get excited about. My appetite for Wild Child was whetted reading A Death in Kitchawank, in a recent New Yorker. I know that I plan to spend a few hours as a happy subject of literary manipulation, as soon as I lay hands on Boyle's latest.

New Haven Advocate | Eva Geertz | 02-02-2010 | Fiction

Tags: Wild Child and Other Stories, T.C. Boyle

Amy Bloom's (Mostly) New Stories Look for What Matters Mostnew

Amy Bloom's new collection is a revelation of the emotional violence and loss within friendship and complicated love. Many writers would do well to heed Bloom, who can compound the very essence of a relationship in a single phrase.

New Haven Advocate | Nora Nahid Khan | 01-19-2010 | Fiction

Tags: Amy Bloom, Where The God of Love Hangs Out, short stories

Josh Bazell Turns His ER Experience into the Year's Best Debut Novelnew

Bazell, who wrote Beat the Reaper while working on his residency at a California hospital, crafted an ingenious, fast-paced thriller that also managed to be a work of art.

New Haven Advocate | Drew Taylor | 10-20-2009 | Fiction

Tags: fiction, Beat the Reaper, Josh Bazell

Richard Russo's New Novel is a Beach Read With a Grit of Sandnew

Despite its flaws, That Old Cape Magic succeeds as a funny, forgiving profile of a man crawling his way towards self-knowledge just in time to make things right.

New Haven Advocate | Jolisa Gracewood | 08-11-2009 | Fiction

Tags: Richard Russo, That Old Cape Magic, fiction

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

Tags: novels, Colm Toibin, Brooklyn

Lavinia Greenlaw's Book is for Anyone Who Was Ever a Girl or Has Ever Loved Musicnew

Music's remorseless grip on our hearts and minds is the subject of British novelist and poet Lavinia Greenlaw's slow-burning, exquisitely idiosyncratic new book, The Importance of Music to Girls. In bite-sized chapters, Greenlaw hurtles down the rabbit hole and reconstructs her musical education, starting with her earliest memories and ending with her leaving school.

New Haven Advocate | Jolisa Gracewood | 08-05-2008 | Fiction

Tags: Fiction Reviews, Lavinia Greenlaw, The Importance of Music to Girls