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Night Film: Exploring the Dark Arts 20 Aug 2013 | 07:51 pm
Today is pub day for the most buzzed about novel of the summer: Marisha Pessl's Night Film. Will it live up to the hype? I got a pre-pub ebook from the publisher, and spent the last two weeks with it...
Reading List for the Dog Days of Summer 14 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
(This post originally appeared on Book Riot.) Here we are, the dog days. Doesn’t August just seem interminable? If it were up to me, we’d all count to three, and skip ahead to September. Football! P....
The Son: Don't Mess With Texas 6 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
You hear multi-generational epic set in Texas, and your first thought is, "I liked this better the first time, when it was titled Texas." But Philipp Meyer's novel The Son is a masterful re-imagining ...
How Good Will the GONE GIRL Movie Be? 25 Jul 2013 | 07:35 pm
(This post originally appeared on Book Riot.) Last summer, 20th Century Fox and Reese Witherspoon’s production company Pacific Standard paid a whopping $1.5 million for the movie rights for Gillian F...
Reconstructing Amelia: Death Becomes Her? 23 Jul 2013 | 08:42 pm
Kimberly McCreight's debut Reconstructing Amelia is my second favorite novel of the last few years about a bunch of snooty high school kids where the title character dies in the opening pages. The par...
Does E-reading Change the Way You Read? 18 Jul 2013 | 09:06 pm
(This post originally appeared on Book Riot.) Over at the Huffington Post, writer Mark Rubinstein lays out a case for why some people are still resistant to ereading. He doesn’t demonize these folks....
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: On War-Torn Chechnya 15 Jul 2013 | 08:00 pm
Andrew Marra's debut novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, about the last two decades in war-torn Chechnya, isn't an easy read — but not in the sense that it's difficult to understand. It's not a...
Life After Life: Will We Ever Get It Right? 11 Jul 2013 | 07:50 pm
Ursula Todd drowns. She falls off an icy roof. She catches influenza. And that's all within the first 50 pages. The premise of Kate Atkinson's Life after Life, a really smart, inventive novel, is that...
The Round House: The Fine Line Between Justice and Revenge 25 Jun 2013 | 08:00 pm
The opening pages of Louise Erdrich's 2012 National Book Award-winning novel The Round House show our 13-year-old narrator Joe digging up tree roots that are attacking the foundation of the family's h...
Five Thoughts About Dan Brown's Inferno 18 Jun 2013 | 09:14 pm
1. Is This The Same Guy? Right off the bat, I have to ask: Why doesn't Robert Langdon ever reference his previous adventures?! Wouldn't you think it'd be a huge credibility booster (and probably score...
