Susan Salter Reynolds

Susan Salter Reynolds is a book critic and writer who lives in Los Angeles and Vermont. She has three children: Sam, Ellie, and Mia.

Articles

Discoveries: Krys Lee
Most have been forced to piece together a life between Korea and America....
Susan Salter ReynoldsMar 24, 2012
- Fiction
Discoveries: Lars Iyer
Our heroes: unlikely philosophers, whining their way through the American South...
Susan Salter ReynoldsMar 24, 2012
- Nonfiction
- Philosophy
Discoveries: Pamela Druckerman
Okay! I get it! The French are better than us in every way!...
Susan Salter ReynoldsFeb 25, 2012
- Nonfiction
Discoveries: Friedrich Delius
She tries to make sense of the war and its reasons, and cannot....
Susan Salter ReynoldsFeb 25, 2012
- Fiction
Discoveries: Tupelo Hassman
Girlchild is told in many voices: Rory’s diary entries, social worker notes, letters, arrest records,...
Susan Salter ReynoldsFeb 25, 2012
- Fiction
Discoveries: Trea Martyn
IMAGINE A TIME WHEN, to win a woman's love, the ardent suitor had to create a garden more beautiful, more sensual, more unusual than his competition. Seen through Trea Martyn's fascinating lens, the fate of England in the 16th century rested ...
Susan Salter ReynoldsJan 21, 2012
Discoveries: Christian McEwen
HERE IS YOUR CHANCE: a new year, a new opportunity to slow down, stop your crazy multitasking, pay attention to the vivid world. McEwen, who teaches poetry at various schools to people of all ages around the world, has lovingly created ...
Susan Salter ReynoldsJan 21, 2012
Discoveries: Clyde Phillip Wachsberger
IT IS GOOD, MIDWINTER, to read about gardens - it keeps the imagination green and ready for spring. Serious gardeners cozy up this time of year with their catalogs and baby their cuttings. This lovely memoir, complete with the author's watercolors of ...
Susan Salter ReynoldsJan 21, 2012
Discoveries: John Jeremiah Sullivan
JUST WHEN YOU THINK AMERICA is going down the tubes, you read John Sullivan's essays (or David Foster Wallace's, or Rebecca Solnit's) and you think how strange and varied this country is, how huge and relentless and funny. It has been ...
Susan Salter ReynoldsJan 7, 2012
- Memoir
- Nonfiction
Discoveries: Jane Smiley
THERE'S NOTHING LIKE READING writers on writers, and this Penguin series, first published at the turn of this century, contains some gems, including Edna O'Brien's biography of James Joyce (see below). Writers understand exactly how life interferes and inspires the work; ...
Susan Salter ReynoldsJan 7, 2012
- Biography
Discoveries: Edna O'Brien
JAMES JOYCE, POOR JOIST, a funnominal man, supporting a gay house in a slum of despond." Edna O'Brien lays it on a little thicker than Smiley, perhaps because Joyce thrashed around in his own life a bit more than Dickens - there ...
Susan Salter ReynoldsJan 7, 2012
- Biography
Discoveries: Christopher Merrill
CHRISTOPHER MERRILL HAS ALWAYS believed in quests. Over many years and many books he has traveled out, confronting fear, admiring the courage and conviction of others, standing on the shoulders of giants (like Saint-John Perse) to peer into the future. Without ...
Susan Salter ReynoldsDec 10, 2011