Michael Winter’s Minister Without Portfolio (2013)

2014-05-13T14:37:40-04:00

Readers familiar with Michael Winter's fiction will immediately recognize the contrast between stark prose and emotional intensity; in the gap between, the reader resides. For it's not as though Henry Hayward does not feel, but it's as though he has raised a hand to protect himself from the heat of

Michael Winter’s Minister Without Portfolio (2013)2014-05-13T14:37:40-04:00

Wayne Johnston’s The Son of a Certain Woman (2013)

2014-07-11T16:38:32-04:00

"The Son of A Certain Woman. You don’t have to have read Joyce to 'get' it. But it’s a touch more fun if you have." And that is because it is Wayne Johnston's "Joyce book". Which one might take to mean that it's about the Joyce family. (Primarily about Percy

Wayne Johnston’s The Son of a Certain Woman (2013)2014-07-11T16:38:32-04:00

Lynn Coady’s Hellgoing (2013)

2014-07-11T17:21:43-04:00

Reading Hellgoing makes me wonder about Lynn Coady's personal relationships. Not for the obvious reasons that other readers might identify, stories like "Body Condom" and "Play the Monster Blind". But because I imagine that in order to write a short story, she disappears for a spell. I imagine she crawls

Lynn Coady’s Hellgoing (2013)2014-07-11T17:21:43-04:00

Dan Vyleta’s The Crooked Maid (2013)

2014-05-13T15:04:46-04:00

Dan Vyleta's The Crooked Maid pulls readers into a suspenseful, dark tale as swiftly as the train carrying Anna Beer and Robert Siedal pulls into the Vienna station. Although it does share some characters with the author's previous novel, The Quiet Twin, it can be read as a standalone novel. Both

Dan Vyleta’s The Crooked Maid (2013)2014-05-13T15:04:46-04:00

Dennis Bock’s Going Home Again (2013)

2014-05-13T15:06:29-04:00

Perhaps it's only to give readers an idea of how special it all was to Charlie. "I suppose what I'm trying to say is that the writing of a man's life at least gives you an idea of just how special it all was to him the first time around."

Dennis Bock’s Going Home Again (2013)2014-05-13T15:06:29-04:00
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