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Tag Archives: Literary
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…
A Singular Man
by J.P. Donleavy“A rollicking, rambunctious novel . . . sheer pleasure to read . . . shatteringly funny.” —The New York Times Book Review
Skirt and the Fiddle
by Tristan Egolf“Freely delivered, energized and unsculpted. The tone falls somewhere between linear narrative and stream-of-consciousness rant. At its best moments it’s high comedy delivered through…
Small Craft Advisory
by Louis Rubin, Jr.“If the point of reading a memoir is to meet a person who is truly good company, and maybe to have a little wisdom rub off at the same time, Small Craft Advisory is a book to read.”–The New York Times Book Review…
The Siege
by Ismail KadareWinner of the inaugural 2005 Man Booker International Prize, Ismail Kadare’s The Siege is an absorbing, timeless, psychological study into human cunning, battlefield strategy,…
