Tag Archives: Literary

Lord Malquist and Mr Moon

by Tom Stoppard

“Zany, aphoristic and flashy . . . a remarkable entertainment, remarkably funny.” —The Washington Post

Lord of the Barnyard

by Tristan Egolf

“Lord of the Barnyard is an arctic blast of fresh air and a far cry from the formulaic writing so prevelant in much contemporary…

Lost Nation

by Jeffrey Lent

“Lent is a skillful and confident storyteller, evoking the seasons, the dampness of the bogs and the muck and the madness that sometimes affects…

Lost Paradise

by Cees Nooteboom

“Elegant, subtle intelligence . . . cool, intellectually sophisticated, ironic . . . Nooteboom is a careful prose stylist of a notably philosophical bent.”…

The Lost Saints of Tennessee

by Amy Franklin-Willis

“The gifted novelist Amy Franklin-Willis has written a riveting, hardscrabble book on the rough, hardscrabble south, which has rarely been written about with such…

Lone Stars

by Sophia Healy

“Healy skillfully creates with wordsa sense of abstract paintings.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review

The Lonely Guy and The Slightly Older Guy

by Bruce Jay Friedman

“I love this book!” –Steve Martin…

Lonesome Traveler

by Jack Kerouac

“Kerouac’s work represents the most extensive experiment in language and literary form undertaken by an American writer of his generation.”–Ann Douglas

The Long Night of White Chickens

by Francisco Goldman

“A remarkable novel. . . . Accruing vivid new details at every turn, Roger’s account gives the reader the most immediate possible sense of a country and its people, the comic and appealing as well as the horrific.” —The Times Literary Supplement…

Living Room

by Rachel Sherman

“The fractured lives of three generations of women told with zero sentimentality and a huge amount of heart. Living Room is edgy, moving, smart,…