Read in conjunction with Welsh's highly personal introduction, this authorial note will be illuminating for longstanding fans, and make Last Exit to Brooklyn easier to swallow for newcomers.
I have a bad feeling about today - I'm fairly sure there will be "a few" tornadoes later today - best chance western and central Minnesota.
Novelist and memoirist O'Neill (Blood-Dark Track: A Family History, 2001, etc.), born in Ireland and raised in Holland, goes for broke in this challenging novel set largely in post-9/11 New York City.
What's Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer
A mildly perverted, mildly humorous compilation of Ames's New York Press columns into one chunky memoir of sexridden angst.
Another terrific entertainment from Lethem, one of contemporary fiction’s most inspired risk-takers. Don’t miss this one.
The Department of Lost & Found
A predictable debut about a 30-year-old go-getter whose life is put on hold when she's diagnosed with breast cancer.
You've heard of cyberpunk - welcome to the world of faepunk.
A newly revealed letter sheds light on what exactly happens at the end of “The House of Mirth.”
This is a repeat for a novel we reported last March (see P. 125). We liked it then; we like it still. Literary Guild choice for September, it should go farther than the usual first novel.