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The Celestials, Karen Shepard Review In The Celestials, Karen Shepard creates a photographically precise image of small-town America shaken by the arrival of a group of outsiders. It is 1870 and Calvin T. Sampson, one of North ...
Well, it’s finally happened: I’ve jumped on the eReader bandwagon! After mulling over its pros and cons (have a look a the details of my thinking here), I settled on a Kobo eReader, and I’ve now been a proud owner of one for ab...
In a culture where we spend childhood reading The Baby-sitters Club, high school and college English classes pressing through the classic novels our teachers foist on us, and adulthood keeping current with the Gone Girls of the...
Welcome to the pregnancy and children stories. As we all know, pregnancy and children are not easy for any parent. There is cravings, pain, and learning for everyone. We have collected 20 great stories to show the world and hop...
A lot can happen in twenty-four hours, and novels that take place in a single day make good use of every minute. In these novels, a single day can change a life. Each offers a fast-paced, poignant look at the rapidly-changing l...
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner “First novels by poets” is a genre that should have its own section in the bookstore. This semi-autobiographical bildungsroman follows Adam, a young poet abroad on a Fulbright fellowship...
I recently encountered the useful literary term “dirty realism.” It was coined by Bill Buford, former editor of Granta magazine, to describe American literature of the 1980s, including authors like Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff,...
Alright, metrophobes, this ones for you. (And no, I don’t mean those with an irrational fear of straight men with flat-irons!) Over the course of this poetry month, we’ve tried to teach you a little history of poe...
Welcome to our inaugural book debate, between Jo from Booklover Book Reviews and our very own Rebecca Foster. Today they are debating the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson. Have a read through...