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'How to Live Single' Feels Like a 'Sex and the City' Knock Offnew
Liz Tuccillo's "fiction" lacks originality in characters and plot-but also appears to mirror her life. After a disastrous ladies' night out, Julie, who works for a publishing company, pitches the idea of writing a book on how to be single.
Shepherd Express |
Kenya C. Evans |
09-05-2008 |
Fiction
'The Story of Edgar Sawtelle': Extraordinary Debut By David Wroblewskinew
Debut novels of this quality don't come along often. And while its 562 pages may seem daunting, the book is by no means wearisome, and the story's length is necessary to its telling.
Shepherd Express |
Roger K. Miller |
08-08-2008 |
Fiction
Stoned in the '60snew
This is a novel about true outsiders who went too far outside and could only come back in after being airlifted out of Altamont, while their creations turned out to be the stuff of fallen angels.
Shepherd Express |
Martin Jack Rosenblum |
03-28-2008 |
Fiction
The Faith of Easy Rawlinsnew
By "people like me," Easy might mean black men in 20th-century America. But, given Easy's dramatic personality change in this story, the proclamation bears rereading.
Shepherd Express |
Eric Beaumont |
02-22-2008 |
Fiction
'Refresh, Refresh' Looks at the Impact of Warnew
Fiction in the key of fear and frustration.
Shepherd Express |
Erin Kogler |
12-28-2007 |
Fiction
Frank Lloyd Wright's Extra-Marital Activitiesnew
Debut novelist Nancy Horan takes Wright's real-life affair with Mamah Cheney and runs with it.
Shepherd Express |
Rebecca Schlei |
09-10-2007 |
Fiction
'Fellow Travelers' Brings Cold War Era to Lifenew
Historical novel transports readers back in time.
Shepherd Express |
Roger Miller |
06-25-2007 |
Fiction
Concerned About Racenew
Joyce Carol Oates in black and white.
Shepherd Express |
Judith Ann Moriarty |
03-26-2007 |
Fiction
