If you’re one of my long-time readers who remember back to the Sane Magazine days, you will probably, without a doubt, love Michael Poore’s Resurrection Blues. I got a copy of this book from NetGalley (free books, how can you go wrong!). And Resurrection Blues blew my socks off. It blew them off, chewed them up,…
The New Yorker has a video and short article up regarding the imminent closing of The Community Bookstore on Court Street in Brooklyn. It wasn’t the (surely deliberate anachronistic and ridiculous getup of the) New York Times reporter or the man-on-the-street soundbites about what went on in that pretty that I enjoyed, but the walk…
As someone who has spent a lot of time thinking about time travel and how to use it in fiction, or even place it orthogonal to the story, I tend to dive into books with time travel with gusto and a keen eye towards how someone else might have done it. So when I saw…
Listen, you win some and you lose some. Sometimes you’re the least popular, but at least you can console yourself that you’re super highly rated (because no one else has read it to give it a worse review). You, too, can check out your year in books on Goodreads, if you track what you read…
This is going to remind people, people who have long memories, of another time and another place. So I’ve been told I’m not allowed to go around people’s houses, sign them up for Goodreads accounts, visit the Best Picture Book page, write in The Little Red Publishing Hen and vote for it for best picture…
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel My rating: 5 of 5 stars Oh man, oh man oh man. I loved this book. In fact, a few weeks after finishing it I was sitting on a concrete step watching a concert below on the stage, backdropped by the sun setting over the water. It was a little cool…
So I wrote something for the folks at Lockjaw to include in their in-progress Choose Your Own Adventure story. It’s short, sweet (ish?), and will bring back fond memories of reading through countless possibilities and keeping one, two, three, four fingers stuck in pages where you mean to go back and fix the mess you…
Dennis did a spot for WGBH a little while ago in which he talks a little about his latest book, his connection to Boston, even though he’s now living on the west coast. It’s a short but sweet interview but obviously the part that resonated with me was this: I think you write better when you…
So excited at the arrival of this at the house the other day: Churning through Owen King‘s excellent Double Feature with the intriguing The Room up next, but Michael’s latest delivery is slotted on the pile. And on the Butterfly front, possibly to be retitled William Murphy’s Trip to the Quiet Room, no news for you,…
Michael Joyce, he of the “no longer maintaining a web presence” fame (oh, and afternoon, a story, and Twilight, a Symphony, The Sonatas of Saint Francis, and Going the Distance, and, and and), once compared my latest novel to Haruki Murakami (“Murakami in Massachusetts,” specifically). Well, I’ve yet to start an agony uncle column/website like Murakami, but…