“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
Alastair Reynolds on The Best of Joe Haldeman by Joe Haldeman
“Generous, Versatile, and Humane”
June 18th, 2013
D. Harlan Wilson on The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
“Girl without the Dragon Tattoo”
June 4th, 2013
Timothy Spangler on How to Make a Million Dollars An Hour by Les Leopold
“Getting to the Truth about Hedge Funds”
May 3rd, 2013
Courtney Cook on Last Friends by Jane Gardam
“Go Read Jane Gardam: On "Last Friends"”
April 18th, 2013
Benjamin Weissman on Middle C by William H. Gass
“Gasstopia: William H. Gass and the Life Inside Language”
April 12th, 2013
Nathan Deuel on The Reenactments by Nick Flynn
“Getting Out of the Picture: On Being Nick Flynn”
March 7th, 2013
Ted Gioia on U.S.A. by John Dos Passos
“The Great American Novel That Wasn’t”
January 20th, 2013
James Santel on Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
“The Golden Age: On Chabon's "Telegraph Avenue"”
November 11th, 2012
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