Lauren Baratz-Logsted is here again, with a review of a novel by a writer I admire greatly. I remember having a book signed by Russell Banks in Atlanta perhaps a decade ago, back when that great bookstore housed in a used car dealership still existed. I was 23 years old, and it was the first book I ever had signed by a writer I didn’t personally know. Here’s what Lauren has to say. Times are indeed getting lean around here as of the 13 books I’ve read since Sam Pickering’s Let it Ride, there’s only one worth mentioning, but...
Booknotes
booknotes from Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Today, Lauren drops by with more good reads: Even though my last entry for this blog was just published last week, I originally wrote it on August 26. Sadly, of the 35 books I’ve read since then, only a few have been noteworthy. Have events of the real world compromised my enjoyment of mostly fictional worlds? Now that the end is in sight, being in the final quarter of my quest to read a book a day for a year, am I suffering a surfeit of words? Who the hell knows. Whatever the case, these are the books that...
booknotes from Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Guest blogger Lauren Baratz-Logsted drops by again with a big passel of reviews: Something must be severely rotten in the city of Danbury, or life must be going too good, because I go on liking nearly everything I’m reading. Someone please stop me before I turn into a sap. The Days of Awe, by Hugh Nissenson. This is a damn quirky novel, published by Sourcebooks and written by a National Book Award and Pen-Faulkner finalist. It features a protagonist with whom I have nearly nothing in common, a 67-year-old male author of illustrated books of mythology, save that we’re...
booknote: The Bitch Posse
Imagine the Heathers on meth…and coke, and vodka, and Xanax. Add some razors, some seriously messed-up parents, a blood pact, an affair with a high school teacher, and about fifteen years to see how all of this stuff informs their adult lives. There you have Martha O’Connor‘s raw-edged and wildly readable debut novel, The Bitch Posse. I interviewed O’Connor a couple of months ago on Fiction Attic. Read the interview here.
crashing america
Join Katia Noyes tonight at A Clean Well-Lighted Place to celebrate the publication of her debut novel, Crashing America. This story of a 17-year-old punk chick who feels San Francisco for a road romp across the country is already a Booksense pick, and Katia happens to be a very sweet, gracious person to boot.
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
