Tag Archives: Literary
Pinocchio in Venice
by Robert Coover‘Mr. Coover’s work has long occupied a place of honor … He goes at his task with an almost alarming linguistic energy, a Burgessy…
The Pistoleer
by James Carlos Blake“A genuine tour de force . . . an ingenious reconstruction of the life and times of the West’s most feared gunman, John Wesley…
A Place to Stand
by Jimmy Santiago Baca“The finest memoir I’ve read in I don’t know how long. It reminded me of the rawness of George Orwell combined with the human…
The Player
by Michael Tolkin“One of the most wounding and satirical of all Hollywood expos’s: dark and mordant . . . savage. . . . A portrait of…
Playing
by Melanie Abrams“Playing is an audacious erotic debut novel that chills, thrills, shocks and enthralls. Through the story of a young American woman’s love for a…
A Personal Matter
by Kenzaburo Oe“In writing novels there is no substitute for maturity and moral awareness. Kenzaburo Oe has both.” –Alan Levensohn, Christian Science Monitor
The Piano Teacher
by Elfriede Jelinek“The Piano Teacher is compelling fiction, ensnaring the reader with the intensity of the author’s vision and the bitter irony she uses to present…
Pinball
by Jerzy Kosinski“Kosinski has created a suspenseful, readable, and unsentimental tale that showcases his love for and knowledge of music and examines the nature of fame…
Pedro Páramo
by Juan RulfoThe highly influential masterpiece of Latin American literature, now published in a new, authoritative translation, and featuring a foreword by Gabriel García Márquez…
The People’s Act of Love
by James Meek“Meeks builds multiple narratives to a bloody, satisfying, yet unsettling conclusion. People’s Act of Love stands not only as a keenly observed historical thriller…
