Lydia Netzer

I picked up this novel with no expectations and no idea what it was about. By the time I got to the bottom of the first page, the book had...

Christian Kiefer has written a novel about the solitude of an individual. He shows us the magnitude of our individual planet in the vas...

Lauren Groff 's new novel, Arcadia , is a hypnotic, addicting book. Although this is not a plot-driven page-turner in the traditional ...

Lost Saints of Tennessee is the story of Ezekiel Cooper, a man in his forties, driven to the brink of suicide by the death of his twin br...

Pure is brutal, layered, and new. Its world is bleak and strange, its characters are flawed, complicated, beautiful, and damned, every sin...

I've just finished Timoleon Vieta Come Home , by Dan Rhodes, and I feel I've been very gently, gently shaken until my teeth rattled....

The Chronology of Water is Lidia Yuknavitch's sexy, dirty, wordy, wet memoir. Lidia is not that much older than I am. Is it time for us...

In Trickle Down Timeline , Cris Mazza delivers another smart, abrasive collection of short stories you'll find yourself immersed in as ...

In a connected world, where every place is right next door to every other place via cell phones, airplanes, and the internet, it was really ...

Water for Elephants was a runaway bestseller, a breakout book for author Sara Gruen, and a book club darling. The comments you hear in reac...

That's no catcher, and this is not rye. Everyday Psycho Killers: A History for Girls Lucy Corin's first novel, Everyday Psychokiller...

Elegy for a Fabulous World by Alta Ifland Publisher: Ninebark Press For its second offering to the hungry world of literary fiction, Ninebar...

You think you've got it bad? Myla Goldberg's novel, Wickett's Remedy , begins pleasantly enough, as a quaint period piece about ...

Yesterday, watching CNN, I saw a feature piece about a man who has been feeding the homeless daily out of the back of his truck in a Queens ...

I just can't hang. I don't know what happened to me. I want to say that when I was 23 I could tolerate or even enjoy these books org...

This is not a review. It's a reaction. There are spoilers. If you want a review, here it is: Wait is a worthwhile novel from an interest...

There are two fine lines that Abbott had to navigate when writing Sin in the Second City , a historical account of the Everleigh Club, the f...

Since I have been writing about American Idol for two days, I feel the need to elevate the tone of this blog a little. Of course John Irvin...

I read this book when I was in college and then reread it in graduate school. I love it. Love Phoebe, love Hepzibah, love weird old Clifford...