“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
Gore Vidal on Advertisements For Myself by Norman Mailer
“"The Norman Mailer Syndrome" by Gore Vidal”
August 3rd, 2012
Laurie Winer on Gulp by Mary Roach
“"The Pie Hole Is Mine": Mary Roach's "Gulp"”
April 14th, 2013
Stan Persky on Jubilee Hitchhiker by William Hjortsberg
“'The candles will blow themselves out': The Richard Brautigan Saga”
August 30th, 2012
Lee Konstantinou on Every Love Story is A Ghost Story by D.T. Max
“'We’d Hate To Lose You': On the Biography of David Foster Wallace”
September 9th, 2012
Frederick Deknatel on Understanding Cairo by David Sims
January 18th, 2012
Sarah Skilton on Ash by Malinda Lo
July 12th, 2012
Siobhan Phillips on Well Then There Now by Juliana Spahr
February 22nd, 2012
John Shannon on Sympathy for the Devil by Kent Anderson
October 14th, 2011
Molly Rosner on From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
“A City for Children in the Work of E. L. Konigsburg”
June 17th, 2013
Gary Dalkin on In War Times and This Shared Dream by Kathleen Ann Goonan
September 20th, 2012
M. Keith Booker on Existence by David Brin
August 13th, 2012
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Literary Fiction
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Percival Everett
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SF
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Art & Architecture
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