by maturid | Aug 7, 2010 | Biography, Non-fiction
Ah, the pleasures of doing the “hard work” in reading. Let David Lipsky guide you on an amazing, intimate and poignant journey with the late writer, David Foster Wallace. Lipsky has transcribed the tapes of a week-long “interview” with DFW...
by maturid | Dec 9, 2009 | Fiction
Reeve Lindbergh, herself an accomplished memoirist, writes a wonderful review of Jamison’s book in the Washington Post that can be found on the Amazon site. “To write the truth with such passion and grace is remarkable enough. To do this in loving memory...
by maturid | Nov 10, 2009 | Fiction
A first novel by Gaile Parkin is just what the librarian ordered for the armchair traveler who, not for lack of desire, has never made it to the beautiful and fierce continent of Africa. Written in the authentic voices of her many characters, from Egyptians to...
by maturid | Aug 17, 2009 | Biography, Fiction, Literature, Non-fiction
If you haven’t yet discovered the talented and passionate writer Louise Desalvo, On Moving is a wonderful opportunity to begin to glimpse this unapologetic feminist and highly accomplished scholar’s inner life and to share her fascinating musings and...
by maturid | Aug 12, 2008 | Fiction
Michael Lavigne has written a brave and courageous first novel. Cynthia Ozick calls it “radiantly imagined” and Ron Rosenbaum terms it “a daring, even dangerous act of the imagination”. Lavigne confronts some rather incendiary and critical...
