Tag Archives: Literary
Stripper Lessons
by John O'Brien“O’Brien handles [his] story with a masterly and subtle art, as her turns the unlikely into the possible without gush or affectation: Like Carroll…
The Subterraneans
by Jack Kerouac“Each book by Kerouac is unique, a telepathic discord. Such rich, natural writing is nonpareil in the later twentieth century.” —Allen Ginsberg
Suicide Blonde
by Darcey Steinke“Hallucinatory, dystopian . . . a disturbing, poisonous fable of the dire consequences of derailed passion.” –The New York Times
A Stolen Tongue
by Sheri Holman“Holman seduces you into a world of priests, rogues, saints, a world bright with horizon, wonder, piety. Her prose, tart, racy, and somber, will…
Stone Junction
by Jim Dodge“A post-psychedelic coming-of-age fable that’s part Thomas Pynchon, part Tolkien, part Richard Brautigan, a story that owes as much to The Once and Future…
Stories and Texts for Nothing
by Samuel Beckett“This volume of Beckett miniatures–three longish stories and thirteen vignettes, [comprises] fragments from the finest body of work produced by any [contemporary] writer.” –Newsweek
Stargazing
by Peter Hill“It’s 1973, Watergate and Vietnam, the Grateful Dead. What are you going to be when you grow up? asks a friend. A lighthouse keeper,…
Stars Screaming
by John Kaye“Kaye describes the city in richly evocative detail, suffusing it with real feeling. . . . His Los Angeles is replete with awful happenings,…
State Counsellor
by Boris AkuninFrom the writer who reinvented the Russian crime novel, a gripping tale of political subterfuge and murder in turn-of-the-century Moscow featuring the inimitable hero…
Steps
by Jerzy Kosinski“By some miracle of training, which recalls the linguistic bravado of Conrad and Nabokov, he is already a master of pungent and disciplined English…
