Book Review: How I Became a Famous Novelist
/Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist tells the tale of a writer/'content manager'. Steve Donoghue reviews.
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Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist tells the tale of a writer/'content manager'. Steve Donoghue reviews.
Read More"You always felt time as a tangible heartbeat in the mountains. The days were short." Dive into Ron Carlson's novel, The Signal, by starting with this review by Sam Sacks.
Read MoreIn his review of An Expensive Education, Sam Sacks unearths the vast geopolitical conspiracies being hatched in Nick McDonell's Harvard.
Read More“White Sands” by Mark Contino
Read MoreThey live, love, strive, and thrive, but they don’t scrimp, save, hate, or discriminate – is it rapturous capitalism, or virtual virtue? Phillip A. Lobo plays The Sims.
Read MoreBrian Evenson’s stories are populated by wanderers, ciphers, and schizophrenics lost in the fog of their own frustrations. John Madera attempts to navigate the miasma of Fugue State.
Read MoreThe noble sport of fisticuffs has done more than a little for cops, kids, and US Presidents. So why is touching the gloves so widely maligned? John G. Rodwan, Jr. steps in the ring to find out.
Read MoreThe Academy often forgets Oscar-caliber performances from the first half of the year, but movie maven Sarah Hudson doesn’t! Here are some of her earliest nominations.
Read MoreSure, he banged his shoe on a podium, but there was more than that to the fun-loving, infuriating Khrushchev – lots more, as Kristen Borg finds out in Peter Carlson’s K Blows Top
Read MoreChurch and State collided in Henry VIII’s England, and Durham Cathedral was caught in the middle. Steve Donoghue returns to his Tudor beat to review Geoffrey Moorhouse’s The Last Divine Office.
Read MoreWho’s the greatest hater, a killer or his victim’s avenger? Deirdre Crimmins takes a stab at David Moody’s Hater.
Read MoreIn Reason, Faith, and Revolution, literary critic Terry Eagleton joins the contentious “God Debates” popularized by Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins. Jeremy Kessler moderates the results.
Read MoreThe only surviving full-length biography of Alexander the Great was written by a Roman. Steve Donoghue looks at Quintus Curtius Rufus as “A Year with the Romans” continues.
Read MoreHe transformed the American musical – and Judy Garland. Now Vincente Minelli has finally got his due – Brad Jones reviews America’s Dark Dreamer by Emanuel Levy.
Read MoreJ. Courtney Sullivan’s novel Commencement has been compared to fellow Seven Sister Mary McCarthy’s The Group. Laura Tanenbaum assesses how Sullivan fills some mighty big shoes.
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