by Michelle | Feb 27, 2010 | Literary Fiction
Louise Erdrich’s latest offering, Shadow Tag, is about a marriage in painful disarray. It’s about a stalled academic and a self-absorbed artist. It’s about a family that is tearing itself apart from the inside out. Not exactly cheerful company on a...
by Michelle | Feb 12, 2010 | Fiction
With Valetine’s Day fast approaching, we asked our staff which literary couple was their favorite. The staff’s favorite couple, by majority, was Lady Julia Gray and Nicholas Brisbane from Deanna Raybourn’s excellent mystery series. This couple knows...
by Michelle | Feb 3, 2010 | Historical Fiction, Romance
In 1860s Seattle, lumberjack Joe Denton struggles to hold onto the land he was awarded as part of a Land Donation Grant. Without a wife, the burgeoning city’s law officials threaten to sell off the acreage Joe is desperate to hold onto. The answer to Joe’s...
by Michelle | Jan 28, 2010 | The Literary World
J.D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye, has died at the age of 91. TIME magazine has a lengthy article on the author here.
by Michelle | Jan 21, 2010 | Book Awards
The Mystery Writers of America have announced the nominees for the 2010 Edgar Awards. A sample of the categories/nominees: Best Novel Nominees The Missing by Tim Gautreaux (Random House – Alfred A. Knopf) The Odds by Kathleen George (Minotaur Books) The Last...
