Kristen Radtke’s Seek You considers our solitary era
…Casey Kasem’s “American Top Forty.” Seek You braids the science of loneliness, from extensive experiments to recent discoveries, with her personal history. Radtke writes candidly about nomadic treks from the…
Brian Broome’s memoir rescues a childhood ended too soon
…making a show of his muscular body. “Someday you won’t look good,” the rejected man tells him. “You’re not always going to be young. Someday everything you’re so proud of…
In Robert Olen Butler’s Late City, America’s last surviving WWI soldier reports his life story to God
…1919, “whose long life has barely begun,” with dying Sam, “with this farewell late city edition making its way to press in the twenty-first century.” The title, so apt for…
Margaret Renkl discusses her new essay collection, Graceland, at Last
…that speaks to a national audience. It really can’t be the latest local outrage. When I cover a story, [it’s usually] some kind of story that breaks stereotypes, particularly the…
Young women use magic to achieve vigilante justice
…unbridled and sinister. This is why Della’s mother turned into the River Siren and why Della must keep her locked in an abandoned prison. But now young women are going…
Ron Rash’s In the Valley displays his masterful command of short fiction
…are one.” We follow Serena and her one-handed henchman Galloway as they close out Serena’s last American logging interest by exploiting the land to the hilt under a deadline that…
