Tag Archives: Literary
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
by Richard Flanagan“Heart-wrenching and beautifully written . . . A rare and remarkable achievement . . . Flanagan blends a strong yet delicate psychological sensibility with…
South Beach
by Brian Antoni“South Beach: The Novel, Brian Antoni’s candy-colored and warmhearted second work of fiction, would make a terrific opera . . . Rich with club…
The Spa
by Fay Weldon“Provokingly complicated and eminently readable . . . Weldon raises more questions about contemporary sexual politics.” —Financial Times…
Spanking the Maid
by Robert Coover“Not only exceedingly brief but nearly flawless. . . To err is human, to spank divine.” –The New York Times Book Review
The Speed Queen
by Stewart O'Nan“If you haven’t read Stewart O’Nan, you have some catching up to do.”—Stephen King “Scathing and intelligent . . . Makes the skin crawl.”…
A Small Hotel
by Robert Olen Butler“A sleek, erotic, and suspenseful drama . . . Butler executes a plot twist of profound proportions in this gorgeously controlled, unnerving, and beautifully…
Smuggled
by Christina SheaA vivid and deeply affecting novel about a woman’s life in Eastern Europe after she is smuggled across a critical border as a child…
Snow White and Russian Red
by Dorota Maslowska“Maslowska’s prose squeals with directionless drive, whizzing like a drug-induced sensory overload: disjointed, formless, unleashed… It tires and invigorates. It also introduces an otherworld of lasting, unusual imagery… Snow White and Russian Red scans like Kerouac’s Dharma Bums, an anarchic reaction to a generation of socially enforced post-war patriotism and…
So Brave, Young, and Handsome
by Leif Enger“So Brave, Young, and Handsome is a sharp and brainy redemption tale, with all the twists and turns and thrills of a dime-store western. . . . [Enger’s] laid claim…
The Soft Machine
by William S. Burroughs“Burroughs voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American, a voice in which one hears transistor radios and old movies and…
