Tag Archives: Literary

Fair Warning

by Robert Olen Butler

“[Fair Warning is] often brilliant, [a] meditation on love and possession . . . Butler wins us over in the opening pages with this…

A Fairy Tale of New York

by J.P. Donleavy

“J.P. Donleavy is a writer of explosive, winning imagination.” —The New York Times Book Review

Euphoria

by Lily King

“A taut, witty, fiercely intelligent tale of competing egos and desires in a landscape of exotic menace—a love triangle in extremis . . ….

Eveningland

by Michael Knight

In his powerful new short story cycle, Alabama-born Michael Knight illuminates the everyday beauty and heartache of life along the shores of serene, history-haunted…

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

Set in rural Iowa, this “breathtaking . . . remarkable achievement” of a debut novel by the author of Pacific is “at once funny,…

The English Major

by Jim Harrison

“Harrison spins the common chaff of a road trip into gold. . . . peppered with his characteristic insights and asides. . . ….