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Country Girl: A Great Fiction Writer’s Life by Edna O’Brien

On April 30, 2013, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

The courageous and poetic narrative of a great fiction writer’s life, seen from the vantage point of eight decades, brilliant and sensuous, Country Girl is a book we are fortunate that Edna O’Brien decided to write.

Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson by Blake Bailey

On April 21, 2013, in Art & Literature, Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, by Editor

From the prizewinning biographer of Richard Yates and John Cheever, here is the fascinating biography of Charles Jackson, the author of The Lost Weekend—a writer whose life and work encapsulated what it meant to be an addict and a closeted gay man in mid-century America, and what one had to do with the other.

For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet’s Journey through a Chinese Prison by Liao Yiwu

On April 10, 2013, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

For a Song and a Hundred Songs captures the four brutal years Liao spent in jail for writing the incendiary poem “Massacre.” Through the power and beauty of his prose, he reveals the bleak reality of crowded Chinese prisons—the harassment from guards and fellow prisoners, the torture, the conflicts among human beings in close confinement, and the boredom of everyday life.

The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, Edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout

On March 22, 2013, in Art & Literature, Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

This first publication of the letters of one of America’s most consistently admired writers is both an exciting and a significant literary event. Willa Cather, wanting to be judged on her work alone, clearly forbade the publication of her letters in her will. But now, more than sixty-five years after her death, with her literary reputation as secure as a reputation can be, the letters have become available for publication.

Black Holes and Ley Lines by Lorelei Bell, Author of Vampire Fiction

On February 27, 2013, in Guest Writers, Lorelei Bell, Vampire Corner, by Lorelei Bell

I like stories that step out of the comfort zone, or out of the box. If those sort of stories interest you too, check out Sabrina Strong’s latest adventure as she travels to another planet in this third book, Vampire Nocturne.

American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson

On February 22, 2013, in Art & Literature, Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, by Editor

On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, a startling new vision of Plath—the first to draw from the recently-opened Ted Hughes archive. The Sylvia Plath Carl Rollyson brings to us in American Isis is no shrinking Violet overshadowed by Ted Hughes, she is a modern day Isis, a powerful force that embraced high and low culture to establish herself in the literary firmament.

The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne

On February 12, 2013, in Art & Literature, Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things offers a startlingly original look at the revered writer through a variety of key moments, scenes, and objects in her life and work. Going beyond previous traditional biographies which have traced Austen’s daily life from Steventon to Bath to Chawton to Winchester, Paula Byrne’s portrait—organized thematically and drawn from the most up-to-date scholarship and unexplored sources—explores the lives of Austen’s extended family, friends, and acquaintances.

Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles, A Postmodern Love Story in Vonnegutian Style by Ron Currie Jr.

On February 10, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

In this tour de force of imagination, Ron Currie asks why literal veracity means more to us than deeper truths, creating yet again a genre-bending novel that will at once dazzle, move, and provoke.

Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, An Autobiography by J. G. Ballard

On February 6, 2013, in Art & Literature, Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

Never before published in America, this revelatory autobiography—hailed as “fascinating [and] amazingly lucid” (Guardian)—charts the remarkable story of James Graham Ballard, a man described by Martin Amis as “the most original English writer of the last century.”

See Now Then: A Novel Presumed to be Autobiographical by Jamaica Kincaid

On February 5, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

In See Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid—her first in ten years—a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters—a mother, a father, and their two children.