Robert W. Norriss Looking for the Summer is a graceful autobiographical novel that breathes fresh life into a perennial genre:…
Bob Wake
Writer James Agee was 45 years old in 1955 when he died of heart failure in the backseat of a…
Dont be misled by the cover to Mike Magnusons disarming memoir about growing up in Wisconsin, Lummox: The Evolution of…
American Collection page on The Ponder Heart Its been said that Eudora Welty was more comfortable writing short stories than…
Dogs Dream of Running collects forty-eight of John Lehmans wry melancholic poems. Perhaps its bad form to recommend reading a…
Jonathan Franzens strength as a fiction writer lies in his micromanagement of characterization. Its no oxymoron to call The Corrections…
Journey to Portugal offers the pleasures of an engaging travel book coupled with the deeper enjoyment of sharing an excursion…
How many struggling writers wouldnt give their eyeteeth to be in Padgett Powells predicament? Since the publication of Edisto, his…
David Kepesh is a breast man. When author Philip Roth first introduced us to him in the 1973 novella The…
The Wages of Fear is a certified classic with one of the most famous plots in film history. Four men…
Francois Truffaut’s charming 1968 romantic comedy, Stolen Kisses, opened in France four months after the paralyzing May strikes by students…
Ten years in the writing, Mark Danielewski’s 700-page hypertext ghost story, House of Leaves, is a remarkable display of innovative…
Beth Kephart has chosen an elusive theme for Into the Tangle of Friendship. "The more we let others into our…