Madison Smartt Bell discusses the life and work of novelist Robert Stone
…he grew to depend on her doing that fairly early in the marriage. She organized all the practical details of their life and his career and also by Damascus Gate,…
Patti Smith chronicles her idiosyncratic path through the creative life in Year of the Monkey
…bearing witness to music’s alchemical power in a volatile world. Smith’s latest dispatch from her nomadic travels, Year of the Monkey, also reflects the surreal confusion of our fractured, threatening…
Novelist Louise Erdrich draws from her own family history for The Night Watchman
…battle against Resolution 108 would have meant losing legal safeguards that kept these already ravaged nations from dissolving altogether. Alongside Thomas, the novel’s other driving force is Patrice Paranteau, a…
Rita Sims Quillen delivers a thoughtful thriller
…Eva and Andrew Nettles, who own a local sawmill. Eva, alone during the day with her young niece, Katie, catches the drifter trying to steal a chicken and chases him…
Lorraine López sends up the foibles of arts faculty in Postcards from the Gerund State
…academia. However, what López does best in this collection is to move beyond the veneer of intellectual and professional gamesmanship and expose the internal conflicts of her memorable central characters….
Spenser heads to Los Angeles in Robert B. Parker’s Angel Eyes, Ace Atkins’ eighth novel in the iconic series
…aging crime boss, runs a food stand called “Chollo’s Churros,” and resembles a “Mexican Johnny Cash.” This trio faces off against thuggish Hollywood bodyguards and assorted members of the Armenian…
