In contrast to several of John Irvings large-scale comic novels of the past thirty years, Until I Find You likely…
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Set in a storybook vision of rural Tuscany, Jeff Shapiros second novel, Secrets of Sant-Angelo, weaves its narrative way gracefully,…
Chaplin and Agee: The Untold Story of the Tramp, the Writer, and the Lost Screenplay – John Wranovic
Any lingering doubt as to the literary stature of James Agee (1909-1955) should be dispelled later this year when the…
Porter Shreves 2000 debut novel, The Obituary Writer, was a fresh and engaging shaggy-dog tale narrated by a plucky 22-year-old…
Celebrity is a funny thing. One minute you’re in, the next out–or controversial like Madonna, who’s both versatile and successful….
Karl Moline’s artwork in Fray is exemplary, striking the perfect balance between realism and imagination. The characters and settings are…
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It was the progressive Charles Davenport, founder of the Eugenic Record Office, who asserted around 1910 that the ability to…
In the Shadow of No Towers is Art Spiegelman’s reaction to the destruction of the World Trade Center. An oversized…
First, theres the box the sheer physicality of the thing. Its slightly smaller than a vinyl album, 9 1/2…
Madame Butterfly: Japonisme, Puccini, and the Search for the Real Cho-Cho-San by Jan van Rij is an engaging hobbyists project….
On one episode of Comedy Central’s Insomniac, the show’s drunken host, Dave Attell, stumbles into a state fair somewhere in…
Oblivion is David Foster Wallaces third and best collection of short stories to date. Without sacrificing his flair for brainy…
Canadian author Michael Redhill spent ten years writing his debut novel, Martin Sloane, published to wide acclaim in 2001. As…