A modern masculine novel of war, drugs, sex, and crime, Cherry is one of those quiet, masculine novels with an … More
Tag: Fear
Middle C by William Gass
Should humanity, in all of its cruelty, be allowed to endure? Such is the repeated refrain of William Gass’ Middle … More
Riding With The Ghost by Justin Taylor
Justin Taylor’s Riding with the Ghost takes its title from a Jason Molina song of the same name, and explores … More
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Something influenced me to pick up my first novel by Russell Hoban. Perhaps it was an article in the NYT … More
Fraternity by Benjamin Nugent
In his newest collection of short fiction, Ben Nugent has captured the spirit of America’s disassociation with the true gravity … More
Static in the Jungle: “Ducks, Newburyport” by Lucy Ellmann
The sheer contemporariness of this book in terms of what it is about, how it is executed, and the meanderings … More
