Tag Archives: Literary
Mammals
by Pierre Merot“A highly amusing book… Merot is a master of mockery.” –San Diego Union Tribune
The Mammoth Cheese
by Sheri Holman“Holman has fashioned a tale that is poignant and powerful and, like an award-winning cheese, surprisingly complex.” —Chris Bohjalian, The Washington Post Book World…
Man Gone Down
by Michael Thomas“Powerful and moving . . . [Thomas] knows how the odds are stacked in America.”—Kaiama L. Glover, New York Times Book Review (cover review) A beautifully…
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
by Tom Spanbauer“This brave, original, ribald, funny, heartrending fable about the Old West . . . is a book as bright as it is dark, full…
The Man Who Spoke Snakish
by Andrus Kivirahk“How to describe the book? Imagine it is the end of the world, and Tolkien, Beckett, Mark Twain, and Miyazaki (with Icelandic sagas and…
Maggie Darling
by James Howard Kunstler“A gourmet writing performance…Maggie Darling reads like a delicious feast on a beautifully laid table, with great sex after. Wonderfully entertaining.” –Candace Bushnell, author…
The Magic Christian
by Terry Southern“Mr. Southern is wonderfully prodigal of comic ideas. . . . An enormously funny and satisfying satire, done with a great thrifty distinction.” —The…
Make-Believe Ballrooms
by Peter Smith“Wrenchingly funny . . . it treads darkly humorous turf that’s worthy of the author’s sinewy prose.” –The New York Times Book Review
The Malady of Death
by Marguerite Duras“The whole tragedy of the inability to love is in this work, thanks to Duras’ unparalleled art of reinventing the most familiar words, of…
Loving Che
by Ana Menéndez“A beautiful and quite possible reinvention of history.” –Alan Cheuse, NPR
