This just in – Pepperland featured as a starred review on the May 15, 2013 Booklist! “Wightman’s first novel is a riotous, occasionally electrifying celebration of love and music, capturing the turmoil of its times with a touch of otherworldliness that seems right in sync with rock ’n’ roll.” Pepperland is on its way to […]
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Pepperland starred on Booklist!
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013These Modern Times…
Sunday, March 3rd, 2013Umbrella By Will Self 397 pages Bloomsbury Not for the faint of heart. Umbrella is challenging reading, sometimes bewildering, but frequently beautiful. And that’s why a determined reader keeps on going. A Modernist throwback, Umbrella makes it new. It’s like Will Self has pulled his old James Joyce jersey out of the closet, tried it […]
Best reads of 2012 – a pretty good year
Monday, December 31st, 2012I suppose these are in a sort of order, but fear not – they’re all outstanding. And they’re not all new books, there’s a little backtracking going on here. Fiction Gods Without Men, by Hari Kunzru Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut (Why’d it take me 43 years to read it? Dunno. So it goes.) A Naked […]
Schopenhauer meets Maynard G. Krebs…
Sunday, July 15th, 2012The Asphalt Warrior by Gary Reilly Running Meter Press, Denver, 200 pages ISBN: 978-0-984786-0-0-8 What if the gloomy 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer drove a cab in Denver? What if Schopenhauer, crossed with Maynard G Krebs (you do know who that is, don’t you?) by way of comedian Steven Wright, chased fares in the […]
Live and let love
Friday, June 29th, 2012(This review was originally published in the Washington Independent Review of Books.) Let’s see, a new novel by John Irving. Wrestling? Check. Gender confusion? Check. Northern New England? Check. Vienna? Check. Bears? No. Charm? Check. A closer look. Right off the bat, we understand the title—here’s the novel’s epigraph: “Thus play I in one person […]
