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Easy in the Islands
by Bob Shacochis“[Shacochis’s] stories have an unselfconscious narrative momentum–a linear drive toward an ending–that I associate with the easy ways of an old master . . . I think this boy’s been…
Cleopatra Dismounts
by Carmen BoullosaAn enchanting, audacious retelling of the Cleopatra story from a Mexican novelist who is “a luminous writer” and “a masterful spinner of the fantastic.” –Fabiola Santiago, The Miami Herald…
Grove at Home: March 28-April 3
…the Amnesia Express. “The Constitution, a noble piece of paper would free society, / It struggled but then died in vain / And now democracy is ragtime on the corner…
Celebrate Banned Books Week by… reading banned books!
Every year, the last week of September is officially Banned Books Week. As the American Library Association—who promote the annual campaign, along with Amnesty International—explain on their website, BBW “brings…
Mezzanine
by Nicholson Baker“A very funny book . . . Its 135 pages probably contain more insight into life as we live it today than anything currently on the best-seller list.” —The New…
All the Trouble in the World
by P. J. O'Rourke“One of the funniest, most insightful, dead-on-the-money books of the year.” –Los Angeles Times…
A Peculiar Grace
by Jeffrey Lent“Family-fracturing secrets are at the heart of Lent’s luminous third novel, a transcendent story about the healing power of love and art. . . . This sympathetic depiction of a…
The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens
by John Rechy“A potent compound of both sex and rapture. . . . This remarkable story, as Rechy tells it, is sly, smart, sexy and laugh-out-loud funny, but it is also tinged…
The Last Jew
by Yoram Kaniuk“Of the novelists I have discovered in translation . . . the three for whom I have the greatest admiration are Gabriel García Márquez, Peter Handke, and Yoram Kaniuk.” —Susan…
How It Is
by Samuel Beckett“The absolute sureness of design. . . built phrase by phrase into a beautifully and tightly wrought structure–a few dozen expressions permuted with deliberate redundancy accumulate meaning even as they…
