David Adams Richards’ Crimes against My Brother (2014)

2014-10-07T13:49:14-04:00

David Adams Richards has set many works in the Miramichi, beginning with his classic trilogy (Nights Below Station Street, Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace, and For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down), so that the landscape of New Brunswick has become a character in its own right in his

David Adams Richards’ Crimes against My Brother (2014)2014-10-07T13:49:14-04:00

Shari LaPeña’s Happiness Economics (2011)

2014-07-11T16:00:54-04:00

The next time someone says to me that funny books are always disappointing because they're funny-dumb, I'll be pointing them to this novel: it's funny-smart. Brindle and Glass, 2011 Happiness Economics opens with Will Thorne struggling with the idea of being a poet in a world which does

Shari LaPeña’s Happiness Economics (2011)2014-07-11T16:00:54-04:00

Sometimes jazz plays. Sometimes there is cake.

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Touchstone - S&S, 2013 How many women have read Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s classic A Gift from the Sea. Nodding along with passages that could have been pulled from their own musings and diary pages. “Don't wish me happiness. I don't expect to be happy…. It's gotten beyond that,

Sometimes jazz plays. Sometimes there is cake.2014-07-11T17:07:10-04:00

Rebecca Mead’s My Life in Middlemarch (2014)

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Within pages, the bookish will find a niche to inhabit in Rebecca Mead's book, in much the same way that the author has inhabited the pages of Middlemarch. Bond Street Books - Doubleday, 2014 Perhaps not in exactly the same way, for as the author posits, that particularly

Rebecca Mead’s My Life in Middlemarch (2014)2014-06-26T15:04:21-04:00

Priscila Uppal’s Projection (2013)

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At twenty-eight years old, Priscila Uppal meets her mother in Brazil, twenty years after her mother has abandoned daughter-son-husband. Two decades later, their relationship is a complicated one between near-strangers. They spend twelve days together and the experience is shared in Projection within a framework of movie titles. This organizing

Priscila Uppal’s Projection (2013)2014-06-26T14:55:43-04:00
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