If I’ve read a more elegant and absorbing a tale of the danse macabre between morality and mortality than M. L. Stedman’s The Light Between Oceans, I don’t remember it.
Read the Rest!George Saunders’ 10th of December: Warmly Exhausting
If this review seems languid, it’s because my brain and I are cuddling—having just concluded a taxing but gratifying bout of intellectual intercourse with George Saunders’ 10th of December.
Read the Rest!Tessa Hadley’s The London Train–Stiff Upper Life
Tessa Hadley’s fourth novel, 2011’s The London Train, is sneaky, and beyond satisfying. (Congratulations, CapRadio Reads, on a swell second selection.)
Read the Rest!Sloan’s “Mr. Penumbra:” GEEKS RULE!
Our local National Public Radio affiliate, Capitol Public Radio, inaugurated its “CapRadio Reads” book club with a launch party Tuesday evening for first-time novelist Robin Sloan’s Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. What a splendid evening it was.
Read the Rest!Write In “Sam’l. L. Clemens”
We interrupt this skein of seriousness to advise that–despite the estimated $2+ billion that will be spent this campaign season on advertising, the content of which is the intellectual equivalent of a slap fight at third grade recess–Mr. Twain reminds us that not all that much has changed in a century, at least in terms of content.
Read the Rest!The Canary is Coughing
Mike Lofgren was mad as Hell and wasn’t going to take it anymore.
Read the Rest!Xenodu: End of the Republic?
Will the outcome of the November 7 election foreordain the end of our Republic? In 2008, someone in my writers’ group dared me to do something “fantastical.”
Read the Rest!Four-legged, Bi-winged Karma
If you’re anywhere near Face in a Book bookstore in El Dorado Hills tonight, before 8 PM, do drop in for the book launch party of The Dog with the Old Soul.
Read the Rest!Go Get You Some ‘Sun’
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