AltWeeklies Wire
Marisa Silver's Ares Ramirez Only Seems Normalnew
Silver gives voice to real outsiders, society's castoffs who eke out precarious livings around the edges of that other failure, the Salton Sea, a river deflected long ago in hopes of creating a desert oasis for tourists, and now so polluted and oversalinated that it washes up trash and dead fish by the thousand.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
05-27-2008 |
Fiction
Warm Mountainnew
Frazier's long-awaited second book is in many respects the natural successor to his wildly successful debut Cold Mountain, but it is simultaneously a more and less satisfying accomplishment.
L.A. Weekly |
Claire Messud |
10-12-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Charles Frazier, Thirteen Moons
Spy vs. Spynew
William Boyd goes inside Britain's attempt to crack American isolationism in Restless.
L.A. Weekly |
Brendan Bernhard |
09-28-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Restless, William Boyd
Pretty Mysteriousnew
Everything Pessl has going for her is also going against her.
L.A. Weekly |
Nathan Ihara |
08-17-2006 |
Fiction
Not-So-Innocent Abroadnew
Rediscover Graham Greene's lawless roads and mapless journeys.
L.A. Weekly |
Susan Zakin |
07-20-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Fiction Reviews
Men Are Fleetingnew
Chicks are forever.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
06-08-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Deanna Kizis, Finishing Touches
Day of the Rabbitnew
Theme parks and serial killers abound in Karp's first novel.
L.A. Weekly |
Geoff Nicholson |
05-04-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Marshall Karp, The Rabbit Factory
Lemony Snippetsnew
Handler writes infuriatingly charming fiction.
L.A. Weekly |
Nathan Ihara |
05-04-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Adverbs, Daniel Handler
The Literature of Sufferingnew
Abani doesn't simply serve up another steaming dish of atrocity -- he strives for something more sublime and illusive.
L.A. Weekly |
Nathan Ihara |
04-27-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Becoming Abigail, Chris Abani
Bildungsromanesquenew
David Mitchell's novel tracks an 80s adolescence.
L.A. Weekly |
Claire Messud |
03-30-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
