Linda Perdido – Mac Wellman
Linda Perdido is a story about wanderers. Not wanderlusts, and certainly not “lost,” but those who wander for the sake of it. [Continue]
Odds Against Tomorrow – Nathaniel Rich
He addresses with poise and the kind of gallows-humor that would make Don DeLillo, Joseph Heller and Gary Shteyngart proud. [Continue]
The Book of My Lives – Aleksander Hemon
It is in the moments of quiet dread — in that place where artful provocation, orgiastic ecstasy and unimaginable violence come too close together — that Hemon’s writing is most touching and terrifying. [Continue]
Benediction – Kent Haruf
Benediction sets out to do what old-fashioned realism, at its best, took as its central ambition, to portray life as lived, without the kind of artificial distortions that would make it seem either better or worse than the actuality itself allows. [Continue]
A Guide To Being Born – Ramona Ausubel
These are fleshy fictions rooted in reality, miraculous bodies that produce and become disused like every other. [Continue]
