A Cafecito Story Heads up, readers! Summer is gone, fall is still falling, goblins have spooked, the really big bird has been eaten, and then
Ignorance is not bliss after all. You won’t see Band-Aids the same way after reading Apex Hides the Hurt. Apex tells the story of the
Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral Thirty seconds at the O.K. Corral. Mary Doria Russell’s sequel novel to Doc (Holliday) is Epitaph. The center
Rivertalk. Art in rocks and paper and a city with room for both. Rivertalk If light can exist inside black, can sound be heard in
Nein, A Manifesto Home alone, reading Eric Jarosinski’s Nein. A Manifesto, and I’m laughing so hard that tears are running down my cheeks! I don’t
If I Never Get Back How perfect for this baseball-deficient reviewer to have finished Darryl Brock’s absolutely smashing novel, If I Never Get Back, before
Snow Angeles – An Inspector Vaara Mystery A few years ago I reviewed The Boy in the Suitcase for “Bookin’ with Sunny,” and made what
The Best American Poetry of 2015 If we liked every piece in The Best American Poetry, it would be a red flag that the anthology
Uprooted Naomi Novik’s novel Uprooted is what fantasy films are made of. The story follows Agnieszka, who fears that the mysterious wizard known only as
HILLBILLY – A MEMOIR OF FAMILY AND A CULTURE IN CRISIS: Traditionally, an elegy is a poem or song of lamentation. Although neither a poem
THE FIFTH PETAL Brunonia Barry is another contemporary author who can deftly embroider three narratives into a single story. The Fifth Petal takes place during
RAISING WILD, DISPATCHES FROM A HOME IN THE WILDERNESS Michael P. Branch, author of a book of essays titled Raising Wild, manages what some would
BORN A CRIME: STORIES FROM A SOUTH AFRICAN CHILDHOOD Trevor Noah, South African comedian, recent emigrant to the U.S., and currently the host of The
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE The other day I was at my bookshelves looking for a particular William Carlos Williams book of poetry when I spotted
THE SHADOW LAND If “Bookin’ with Sunny” were to give five stars to the best novels we review, Elizabeth Kostova’s The Shadow Land would deserve
THE FARAWAY NEARBY Rebecca Solnit’s collection of nature essays The Faraway Nearby has a distinctive, graceful prose style that in some passages leaves this reader giddy with
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