Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. ...
1. What attitude does Leave It to Me take toward adoption? How do you feel when Faustine/Debby/Devi abandons the DiMartinos so early in the novel? 2. When Debby starts her search f...
SUMMARY: With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London tha...
Amazon.com ReviewDonald Harstad was an Iowa deputy sheriff for 26 years, and only retired so that he could pursue his passion for writing. His first book was a well-received police...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this unforgettable work of fiction, Donald Ray Pollock peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient lives o...
SUMMARY:When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In ...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Shortly before the Cuban missile crisis, mystery Grand Master Block (_Hit and Run_) donned a pen name to publish this absorbing yarn about fiv...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A fabulously fun, romantic comedy from a dynamic new talent.** Nothing fazes Taylor Donovan—not in the courtroom and not in her personal life. So when she’s ass...
A biography of Julia Child from the award-winning author of Perfection SaladOne of the most beloved figures in 20th century American culture was Julia Child, the bouyant "French Ch...