Tag Archives: Literary

Great Expectations

by Kathy Acker

Beginning as a rewriting of Charles Dickens classic of the same name, Great Expectations spirals into Kathy Acker’s most notorious work of textual appropriation…

The Great Glass Sea

by Josh Weil

“Josh Weil’s The Great Glass Sea is the most unexpected second book by a writer of note to appear in years . . ….

The Great Leader

by Jim Harrison

A black-comic detective novel in the vein of No Country for Old Men, Jim Harrison’s The Great Leader follows a retired detective in hilarious…

The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad

by Roger Boylan

“Boylan’s narrative resembles Joyce at his comically prolix best, with a similar appetite for vernacular nuance and pop allusion.” –The Village Voice

Goodbye Tsugumi

by Banana Yoshimoto

“Yoshimoto’s words are considered, and each of them has the weight of a small, perfectly round stone dropped into a still pool. . ….

Goodbye, Goodness

by Sam Brumbaugh

“Goodbye, Goodness is the rock “n” roll Great Gatsby. The American dream, slaughtered during the indie-rock nineties by an author who lived it. ….

Goodness

by Tim Parks

“A story that is at once wrenching and wholly believable . . . An exceptional accomplishment and a lovely book.” –The Washington Post

Goodnight, Beautiful Women

by Anna Noyes

An electrifying debut by sensational new literary talent Anna Noyes, Goodnight, Beautiful Women surveys the residents of small New England coastal towns in tales…

Gould’s Book of Fish

by Richard Flanagan

“What’s memorable–even extraordinary–about this book are Flanagan’s aphoristic talent, his imagination and his uncanny ability to channel the Rabelaisian voices of the great picaresque…

The Good Doctor

by Damon Galgut

“Like most elements of this slim, absorbing novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, the title is ambiguous. The narrator, Frank, is a doctor, but,…