Alizah Salario

Articles

• Finding Order in Chaos

  Barry Yourgrau is forced to confront his forever-mushrooming mess and, by extension, himself, in "Mess."...

  Alizah SalarioSep 28, 2015

  • Memoir

• The Prince of Brotherhood

  Lucas Mann and David Payne on the grief memoir of losing a family member young and writing as healing....

  Alizah SalarioAug 11, 2015

  • Memoir

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  Dialects by Design

  Alison Lurie talks about "what people might see in buildings, and what they were saying to us."...

  Alizah SalarioNov 20, 2014

  • Memoir

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  Unhappy in Its Own Way

  Caeli Wolfson Widger takes on the reality of reality television in her debut novel, "Real Happy Family."...

  Alizah SalarioMar 10, 2014

• The End of the Road

  IN THE AGE OF GPS and Google Maps, traveling without a personal navigation system is almost passé. Pity those rare sojourners who choose to move toward uncertain destinations without the help of technology. They risk getting lost and wasting time, both ...

  Alizah SalarioFeb 9, 2014

• FICTION: NEW & NOTEWORTHY

  2013 IN REVIEW: Rachel Kushner’s THE FLAMETHROWERS and Caleb Crain’s NECESSARY ERRORS       Trude Love: Alizah Salario on Eric Lundgren's THE FACADES         The Departed: Ira Wells on Robert Stone's DEATH OF THE BLACK-HAIRED GIRL       Danger Close: The ...

  Ira Wells, Geoff Mak, Ryan Bubalo, Alizah SalarioDec 25, 2013

  • Fiction

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  Trude Love

  The Facades is not so much a whodunit as a whoamI....

  Alizah SalarioDec 25, 2013

  • Fiction

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  Up in the Canyons: Lawrence Blume Adapts “Tiger Eyes”

  Can the adaptation of “Tiger Eyes” hold up to Blume’s legacy?...

  Alizah SalarioJul 20, 2013

  • Fiction

  • Film

• The Lonely Heart’s Club: Fiona Maazel’s “Woke Up Lonely”

  BEING CAUGHT in the paralyzing grip of loneliness is a bit like being suspended at the top of a Ferris wheel. Viewed from the ground, a distant perch far above all these annoying people appears liberating, but once up in the ...

  Alizah SalarioApr 3, 2013

• Is the Internet the Novel’s Saving Grace?

  IN CASE THIS IS the first article you’ve come across about the relationship between the internet, novels, and their authors, here’s a quick recap of the last few years: the internet is eroding attention spans and triggering ...

  Alizah SalarioNov 30, 2012