…wanting nothing more in the world than to know what it was like to be Tiny. Copyright (c) 2012 by Sean Kinch. All rights reserved. Sean Kinch lives in Nashville,…
Tiny Dreams
To learn to soar, sometimes all it takes is a hero
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Across the Generations
Louise Erdrich’s new novel is a mystery, a coming-of-age-tale, and a microcosm of Indian-Anglo relations, all at once
Louise Erdrich does not fit into any pigeonhole. Her career, spanning three decades and twenty-six books, may once have belonged in the category of the “Native American renaissance” of the…
Captive Audience
The protagonist of Laura Lippman’s new thriller hasn’t moved as far beyond the past as she believes
Laura Lippman’s new crime novel, I’d Know You Anywhere, begins where most mysteries end. The killer has been caught and incarcerated; apparently, justice has been served. Twenty years after he…
Feeding the Hope Machine
Salvatore Scibona, one of The New Yorker‘s new “20 Under 40” writers, talks with Chapter 16
In 2008, Salvatore Scibona’s first novel, The End, was a finalist for the National Book Award—a coup for its author and for its publisher, the tiny, nonprofit Gray Wolf Press….
Winesburg, Louisiana?
A splendid new story collection by M.O. Walsh takes its cue from Sherwood Anderson
In the hands of a less subtle writer, the premise of M.O. Walsh’s new collection of stories, The Prospect of Magic, could easily have resulted in hopeless kitsch. When the…
Inquisitive
Padgett Powell returns with a novel written entirely in questions
Padgett Powell is a genius of American letters, a brilliant but eccentric writer who looms on the margins of the mainstream. After his first novel, Edisto (1984), won critical praise…
