Staff Picks
October 30, 2009
Staff Pick: House of Leaves on Halloween 8
by Ben Dooley
Mark Z. Danielewski paints the page like a canvas, exploiting both knife-sharp prose, painfully clever post-modernist narrative devices, and typographical tricks to draw the reader into his tale of horror.
October 22, 2009
Staff Picks: Everything Matters! and Big Machine 1
by Edan Lepucki
Both of these books were wild and weird, but they also were heartbreaking.
October 20, 2009
The Maples Stories, Backward 0
by Garth Risk Hallberg
The Maples Stories, read backward, draw on the best of both Updikes: the younger writer’s curiosity, anxiety, and social preoccupations; the older’s earned sense of pathos.
October 14, 2009
Staff Pick: Graham Greene’s The Captain and the Enemy 0
by Andrew Saikali
Truth and lies, family and belonging are all woven together the Graham Greene way.
October 8, 2009
Staff Pick: Hallie Rubenhold’s The Lady in Red 0
by Emily Colette Wilkinson
A vivid, lucid account of one of the strangest English sex scandals of the age: the tale of the adulterous Lady Seymour Worsley and her vengeful husband, Sir Richard Worsley.
September 8, 2009
Staff Pick: Matthew Kneale’s English Passengers 1
by C. Max Magee
It’s the sort of book that has you running for atlases and encyclopedias to try to learn by what alchemy the author has turned history into such invigorating fiction.
