Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
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Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
February 23, 2025His cold restraint, often criticized, is the source of his tremendous power as a novelist. His...
Morning and Evening Talk by Naguib Mahfouz
February 23, 2025Reading these medieval entries can be as exciting as perusing annotated bibliographies at times, since the...
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour
February 22, 2025If you meet a quiet, rugged kind of a fella with an almost superhuman knowledge of...
Lots in a Name
February 22, 2025Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero,...
True Grandeur is a Hollywood Novel for the 21st Century.
February 19, 2025True Grandeur, written by Hollywood actor, writer, and filmmaker Cal R. Barnes, has generated near-universal acclaim...
The Flawless Skin of Ugly People by Doug Crandell
February 18, 2025Hobbie suffers from acne vulgaris, which has forced him into a retreat from life. ‘Other than...
My Thousand & One Nights by Raja Alem and Tom McDonough
February 18, 2025In Alem’s world-view, one might expect to see objects morph into people, animals writhe in henna...
The Tin Roof Blowdown By James Lee Burke
February 16, 2025Because he’s a damn good writer James Lee Burke knows how to keep a plot going...
Murdering Miss Austen
February 16, 2025Jane Austen, whose sharp tongue barely left her cheek during her short lifetime, and, whose caustic...
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