Combining literary criticism with school yard boasts, the famous teenage founders of mugglenet.com take their unequaled knowledge of the seven book series and apply it to fun, fasc...
Elkin's National Book Critics Circle Award–winning classic: The story of an elderly woman who suddenly becomes mixed up in a world of criminals and con artists After her beloved hu...
Amazon.com ReviewHow do you write the biography of a cipher? That's the daunting challenge veteran Hollywood biographer Ed Sikov tackles in exploring the life of one of the 20th ce...
Neatly organized, Mr. Monk and Philosophy uses philosophy to uncover more about the brilliant obsessive-compulsive detective Adrian Monk. With the guidance of history’s greatest...
Amazon.com ReviewAli Smith, Booker Prize–nominated, bestselling author of There But For The, and The Accidental, interviews Helen Oyeyemi about *Mr. Fox*...
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER (1893–1978) was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist, as well as an authority on early English music and a member of the Communist Party. Her first novel...
Amazon.com ReviewDefense attorney Nina Reilly has bad luck with men: one marriage ended abruptly, and another ended in tragedy. Still, her misfortunes with the opposite sex are not...
TROUBLE ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED THE RAINY SEASON Rain and isolation could make folks crazy in these parts. Sheriff Mitch Tanner -- the most eligible bachelor in the county -- would have...
Amazon.com ReviewPop quiz. Please complete the following sentence: "There are days when I get up in the morning and stagger into the bathroom and begin running water and then I loo...
SUMMARY: Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Siren...