AltWeeklies Wire
For Love or Mummynew
The Professor's Daughter is a French love story about an Egyptologist, his daughter and the mummy who loves her.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Tremble |
05-29-2007 |
Fiction
'New Moon' Shinesnew
Fusing the politics of foreign aid and debt with elements of magic realism, Hopkinson locates the narrator in a nation undergoing its own reconciliation with the past.
NOW Magazine |
Emma McKenna |
05-25-2007 |
Fiction
'Falling Man': Return to 9/11new
No piece of fiction has come closer to recreating the atmosphere of that day and the days shortly thereafter.
Sacramento News & Review |
John Freeman |
05-25-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Don DeLillo, Falling Man
Under the Munro Influencenew
Away From Her is inspirational, though not everyone gets it right.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
05-24-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Alice Munro, Away from Her
Revenge on Icenew
Celebrated spy novelist Charles McCarry offers a sad tale from the Deutsches Reich with love.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
05-10-2007 |
Fiction
A Fine Novelnew
Horses is ultimately a testament to just how easily mellows can be harshed -- to life's hidden tripwires, strung everywhere and capable of catapulting anyone back down the bittersweet rabbit hole of stinging memory.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
05-08-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
Bylaws and Ass-Kickingnew
Nicola Griffith's third Aud outing is practiced but a little heartless.
Seattle Weekly |
Karla Starr |
05-07-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Always, Nicola Griffith
The All-embracing Fiction of Alex Mindtnew
Mindt wants to understand everything, even love everything -- and he wants to sing about it -- and his interests in Male of the Species are omnivorous and avid.
Tags: Alex Mindt, Male of the Species
American Uglynew
Innocence is not all lost in American Youth, Phil LaMarche's tale of rural alienation.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
05-03-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: American Youth, Phil LaMarche
All About Evienew
Buy this book, read it and then keep it for your daughters.
NOW Magazine |
Arianne Rubenstein |
04-30-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Bottle Rocket Hearts, Zoe Whittall
Advocating for the Final Big Chillnew
Boomsday is more bitter than his previous novels, with a deeply cynical edge that should appeal to fans of Martin Amis and Max Barry.
Willamette Week |
Kevin Allman |
04-25-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Boomsday, Christopher Buckley
The New Worldnew
Miranda July examines longing and transformation in a new collection of stories.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Davidson |
04-25-2007 |
Fiction
Questions of Politics, Love, Sanity and Envynew
Theodore Gericault's 1818 painting "The Raft of the Medusa," a beautifully colored and affecting tableau that depicts survivors of a shipwreck off the African coast, is the subject of this novel.
Baltimore City Paper |
Stephen Peterson |
04-24-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Arabella Edge, The God of Spring
We the Workersnew
Joshua Ferris strikes at the heart of soulless jobs.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
04-13-2007 |
Fiction
A Fire Engine Rednecknew
The final, unfinished novel of the late, great Larry Brown.
Tags: A Miracle of Catfish, Larry Brown
