New York Times Book Review
For all their satire and dark implications, the novels of the Bridge family remain in the memory as triumphs of faultless realism. Mr. Connell's art is one of restraint and perfect mimicry.
“What if we could do anything? Should we do it? What are the consequences?” Ramona Ausubel’s new novel The Last Animal asks big questions about motherhood, grief and our responsibility to the planet. And there’s a woolly mammoth. Ausubel joins us to talk about the realities of working in male dominated fields, the differences in […]
“I think bookstores are really magical places, and not to be too idealistic about it, I really think that they’re so important, they’re cornerstones to communities, and they are treasures and we need to keep them alive.” Jami Attenberg, author of Saint Mazie and The Middlesteins, among other novels, joins us on the show to […]
The late author was an artist unconstrained by genre or convention.
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” So begins a book about one of the most unhappy marriages in all of literature. The classics are rife with unions so disturbed and disturbing that it’s a wonder any student who makes it through high school English ever gets hitched. […]