Tag Archives: Literary
The Adventures of Miles and Isabel
by Tom Gilling“A brilliant flight of seduction. . . . The Adventures of Miles and Isabel is a novel of dreams and fantasy and not a…
After the Blue Hour
by John Rechy“Rechy . . . continues to write with such elegance and lyricism . . . A mind so singularly attuned to the layers and…
After You’ve Gone
by Jeffrey Lent“After You’ve Gone, like its hero, is quiet, measured, and introspective. . . . A lyrical, honest, and valuable novel, one that attends to…
1959
by Thulani Davis“Willie Tarrant recalls both Scout in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Nel in Toni Morrison’s Sula. . . . A captivating heroine….
a: A Novel
by Andy Warhol“Hellish hymns from Amphetamine Heaven, the vox populi of the Velvet Underground . . . These people are witty and they are grand, they…
About Harry Towns
by Bruce Jay Friedman“About Harry Towns is a goddamn heartbreaking delight and you are a fool if you miss it. Friedman has created a character unique, haunting, and completely memorable in stories which tickle, depress, gouge below the belt and at a second or third reading hold up as nothing less than a…
The Accident
by Ismail KadareThe new novel from internationally acclaimed, prize-winning author Ismail Kadare documents an ill-fated love affair, in which passion, jealousy, and obsession collide in the…
The Accusation
by BandiA collection of searing and heart-wrenching stories by an anonymous North Korean writer who is still living in North Korea and whose manuscript was…
Pussy, King of the Pirates
by Kathy Acker“Acker discards, mangles, and rewrites literary conventions. Using words as weapons to smash her way into modernity, she pushes language to the tension point,…
