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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.

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  • Discoveries: Robert Vivian

    Discoveries: Robert Vivian

    THESE ESSAYS CONTAIN SOME OF THE FINEST writing I have ever read. We readers are big mammals. We lumber through life as best we can, leaving so much in our wake unnoticed. Robert Vivian makes up for this shortcoming. He’...

    Susan Salter ReynoldsDec 10, 2011

    • Three Novels

      Three Novels

      By Nightfall, like The Hours, is chock full of literary reference, especially Thomas Mann (Death in Venice), not Virginia Woolf....

      Susan Salter ReynoldsNov 19, 2011

      • Discoveries: Lily Tuck

        Discoveries: Lily Tuck

        YOU SUSPECT IT'S TRUE: what we remember at life's end are the vacations, the concerts, the dinners with friends. In one of the most beautiful love songs in novel form you'll ever read, Nina sits with her husband's body until morning, ...

        Susan Salter ReynoldsNov 19, 2011

        • Discoveries: Michael Cunningham

          Discoveries: Michael Cunningham

          COMBINE FOR A MOMENT the descriptive power of a James Salter novel (oh, those beautiful things!) with the dialogue of a John Fowles novel (Daniel Martin). This is the feeling one gets reading Michael Cunningham's latest. By Nightfall, like ...

          Susan Salter ReynoldsNov 19, 2011

          • Discoveries: Maile Meloy

            Discoveries: Maile Meloy

            MAILE MELOY SAYS IT'S FOR AGES ten and up, and I think that includes 52. This delightful secret garden of a novel contains all of your favorite things. It's as if Meloy put London, L.A., potions, mysterious old shops, great ...

            Susan Salter ReynoldsNov 19, 2011

            • Discoveries: Ben Loory

              STRANGE, GORGEOUS FABLES - the reader isn't sure if she has dreamed them or read them. A homesick octopus with a collection of spoons drinking tea in his tidy apartment? A duck falls in love with a rock? UFOs, sharks. Some of ...

              Susan Salter ReynoldsSep 24, 2011

              • Discoveries: Henri Cole

                ldquo;IT'S GOOD FOR THE EGO,” Cole writes in the poem “Hens,” “when I call and they come running.” “My hair went away in the night while I was sleeping,” he writes in “...

                Susan Salter ReynoldsSep 24, 2011

                • Discoveries: Alexandra Fuller

                  IN ALEXANDRA FULLER'S CLASSIC MEMOIR Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, the author used all her formidable humor, love, persistence, and maybe a little anger to paint a picture of what is surely one of the strangest childhoods ...

                  Susan Salter ReynoldsSep 3, 2011