Jill Eisenstadt’s debut, From Rockaway, was bound by the nihilistic routines of a trio of lifeguards who spend their summers surveying New York’s Rockaway Beach. Though still young, their lives already seem decided, split between watching the waves and working blue-collar jobs in the cold months. Her latest, Swell, returns to the shore thirty years […]
It’s not as if contemporary male authors can’t write great love stories. There’s, well, Love Story for a start, by Erich Segal, and the great tear-jerker Endless Love by Scott Spencer. But it’s still an intriguing read when you have an unconventional whirlwind romance as told by a hapless Brit—think Hugh Grant meets James Corden—and that’s especially […]