“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviews
Nathan Deuel on The Reenactments by Nick Flynn
“Getting Out of the Picture: On Being Nick Flynn”
March 7th, 2013
Carmen Machado on Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
March 6th, 2013
Dave Mandl on Music 109 by Alvin Lucier
Roxana Badin on The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
“Rowling Keeps It Real: On "The Casual Vacancy"”
March 1st, 2013
Kelsey Joseph on Tenth of December by George Saunders
“Is This Us? On George Saunders’s "Tenth of December"”
February 28th, 2013Video
Genres
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Literary Fiction
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Mike Davis
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Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Film
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Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More