Tag Archives: Literary
Everyday People
by Stewart O'Nan“o’Nan’s protean imagination, if it can be summed up at all, seems to be civic. . . . He is a writer who reaches…
The Erasers
by Alain Robbe-Grillet“I doubt that fiction as art can any longer be seriously discussed without Robbe-Grillet.” –The New York Times
Essential Acker
by Kathy Acker‘scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other I know.” –Tom LeClair, The New York Times Book Review
The End of Vandalism
by Tom Drury“Brilliant, wonderfully funny . . . It’s hard to think of any novel—let alone a first novel—in which you can hear the people so…
The English Major
by Jim Harrison“Harrison spins the common chaff of a road trip into gold. . . . peppered with his characteristic insights and asides. . . ….
The English Teacher
by Lily King“Beautifully written and carefully observed . . . King is a wildly talented writer.” —Claire Dederer, Chicago Tribune…
The Englishman’s Boy
by Guy Vanderhaeghe“The Englishman’s Boy . . . [is] outstanding. . . . A complex, finely written story of deception, dreams, survival, and greed.” —Sybil Downing,…
Equal Affections
by David Leavitt“A gritty, passionate novel . . . [Leavitt] has written from the point of view of a raging, self-dramatizing mother with clarity and with…
Elvissey
by Jack Womack“Jack Womack is another of the heirs of cyberpunk, one of science fiction’s most interesting new writers.” –Los Angeles Times
Emmanuelle II
by Emmanuelle Arsan“Emmanuelle Arsan has launched an all-out one-woman crusade to liberate mankind from the sexual taboos that have woven themselves into our moral nature.” —Panorama
