AltWeeklies Wire
High Trees and High Seasnew
The Wild Trees and The Happiest Man in the World track modern-day explorers of new worlds.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Witherell |
05-30-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Fiction Reviews
Fishing for a Good Read?new
The annual winter reading issue: novels, nonfiction, graphic novels and more, from Richard Ford to Alan Moore.
Eugene Weekly |
Eugene Weekly Staff and Freelancers |
12-15-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Fiction Reviews
Not-So-Innocent Abroadnew
Rediscover Graham Greene's lawless roads and mapless journeys.
L.A. Weekly |
Susan Zakin |
07-20-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Fiction Reviews
Dante, Dudenew
The Commedia finds a 21st-century vernacular.
Boston Phoenix |
Jeffrey Gantz |
09-02-2005 |
Fiction
Come to Look for Americanew
Although Oh, Play That Thing flows along nicely, it lacks the urgency of its predecessor and at times comes close to unraveling.
Boston Phoenix |
Clea Simon |
11-05-2004 |
Fiction
Westward, Oh...new
The tension in Mark Spragg's latest novel, slated for a forthcoming Robert Redford film, is between Spragg's wonderful prose and predictable story.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
11-04-2004 |
Fiction
Alabama Dreamin'new
Hoffman gives an "Alabama Twist" to the Kleinmans—a compelling drama about a classic Southern family, except that they're Jewish.
Jackson Free Press |
Lynette Hanson |
10-29-2004 |
Fiction
His Velocity: Keeping Up With Dave Eggersnew
While Heartbreaking Work fried Eggers' grief over his parents' death in a vat of irony -- a necessary tic, no doubt, in de-sanctifying the memoir -- these stories do not have their guards up. They are raw, unfiltered and have the quivering texture of lived experience.
Missoula Independent |
John Freeman |
10-29-2004 |
Fiction
Love and Liesnew
Livesey creates characters who quicken a story about the nature of love into a story about the mutability of truth.
Boston Phoenix |
Dana Kletter |
10-28-2004 |
Fiction
Marti and Morenew
Francisco Goldman’s fictional re-creation of 19th-century Central America is more telling in its details than in its larger picture.
Boston Phoenix |
Richard C. Walls |
10-19-2004 |
Fiction
Local Colornew
Barbara Sutton finds an undeniable comedy in our darkest sorrows.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
10-19-2004 |
Fiction
Postmodern Metaphysical Novel Brings Together Fin de Siècle Figuresnew
The characters in this novel come to Africa during a time of colonial retreat to impose their own philosophies on the African jungle's "darkness" (an idea author Norman Lock mercilessly slices and dices with his deconstructive Ginsu).
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
10-07-2004 |
Fiction
Busting a Move: Pamela Anderson Conquers Literaturenew
No fragile, tragic, self-destructive Marilyn Monroe clone, Pamela Anderson is a canny businesswoman who knows exactly what a valuable commodity she possesses, and who’s buying.
Missoula Independent |
Nicole Panter |
09-30-2004 |
Fiction
Book Whispers the Ancient Continuities of Faith and Culturenew
For Southern fiction, these are familiar stories, tragic and sublime, with an unusual cast of characters. For Jewish fiction, these are familiar characters in unaccustomed tales.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
09-30-2004 |
Fiction
Home Lifenew
Cambridge author Gish Jen’s characters struggle to define themselves in a family united not by blood but by chance — who are you if you’re not your mother’s child?
Boston Phoenix |
Amy Finch |
09-21-2004 |
Fiction
