Tag Archives: Literary
Kill Hole
by Jamake Highwater“An extremely literate compelling fiction about timeless human dilemmas. . . . A Native American answer not only to Kafka’s The Trial but Thomas…
A Killing in This Town
by Olympia Vernon“Viscerally moving . . . A fugue of folk idiom, blues, biblical diction and surreal imagery makes for lots of atmosphere.” –Publishers Weekly
Junky
by William S. BurroughsBurroughs’s first and most autobiographical novel is one of the most unflinching and insightful works on addiction ever written—a cult classic and an influence…
Kamchatka
by Marcelo FiguerasA man recalls his experience as a ten-year-old boy hiding in a safe house during Argentina’s “Dirty War” in this commanding and spellbinding novel…
Kate Caterina
by William Riviere“A masterpiece of a tour through Mussolini’s Italy . . . If the mark of a great novel is that readers will miss the…
Judgment Day
by Penelope Lively“Judgment Day is remarkable for several reasons. First and foremost, it’s a good book. It’s also short, sharp and, though it addresses important questions, thoroughly unpretentious . . . The beauty of Judgment Day is that it offers big themes through humble subject matter.” –Elizabeth Noyes, Boston Sunday Globe…
Julip
by Jim Harrison“A marvelous book, written with vigor and a knowing, gravelly humor.” —Fritz Lanham, Houston Chronicle
Jasmine
by Bharati Mukherjee“A fable, a kind of impressionistic prose-poem, about being an exile, a refugee, a spiritual vagabond in the world today; Mukherjee has eloquently succeeded.”…
Jealousy & In the Labyrinth
by Alain Robbe-Grillet“Jealousy…is a technical masterpiece, impeccably contrived.” –New York Times Book Review
Jesus Saves
by Darcey Steinke“A disturbingly beautiful piece of writing. Darcey Steinke has found a trashy and intensely spiritual poetry in the suburban malls and backwoods of the…
