“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
Cullen Gallagher on Kiss Her Goodbye by Max Allan Collins and Mickey Spillane
September 17th, 2011
John Langan on Motherless Child by Glen Hirshberg
“Mina and Lucy at the Waffle House”
October 14th, 2012
Mark Bould on Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
“Mining the Great Midden of Genre”
June 21st, 2012
Paul Di Filippo on Tenth of December by George Saunders
April 22nd, 2013
E.C. McCarthy on The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
February 27th, 2012
Niall James Holohan on Brit Wits: A History Of British Rock Humor by Iain Ellis
July 15th, 2012
Leah Larson on Growing Up Dead in Texas by Stephen Graham Jones
“More Than Just a Place to Stop for Gas”
October 24th, 2012
Veronica Gonzalez on Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman
August 17th, 2011
John Shaw on The Irving Berlin Reader and Irving Berlin’s American Musical Theater by Benjamin Sears and Jeffrey Magee
October 28th, 2012
Matthew Specktor on Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
May 4th, 2011
Cullen Gallagher on Already Gone by John Rector
January 23rd, 2012
Stephanie Elizondo Griest on Amexica: War Along the Borderline by Ed Vulliamy
May 26th, 2011
Rodger Jacobs on Death in Breslau by Marek Krajewski
“Nazi Noir: The Ghost of the Prophet of Fascism”
January 15th, 2013
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