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...also an intelligent, stylized, humorous exploration of the psychology of memory and narrative. Since McCafferty’s debut “Sloppy Firsts,” the Jessica Darling Series has never been firmly in one genre or directly targeted at a clear audience. The first few books straddled the boundary between young adult and mainstream fiction, and as the protagonist and authorial risks have matured, McCafferty has positioned herself between “chick-lit” and more literary-minded fiction. On appearances and plot summary alone, “Perfect Fifths” seems to fall...
...these meditations, in the act of writing.Over the course of the collection, Wright gradually introduces the metaphorical relationship between language and life. In “Tomorrow,” the first poem, Wright suggests that life has already been written “on the flyleaf of the Book of Snow.” Later he looks at language not as a tool of the “merciless” future but of his own understanding. In “Sundown Blues,” he realizes “There are some things that can?...
...easy way as a novelist. He wrote his debut, 2001’s “The Right Hand of Sleep,” in a tent in the basement of a Brooklyn warehouse, where he would by-now-famously listen to rats copulate. For his second book, 2005’s “Canaan’s Tongue,” he did his publicity tour by raft down the Mississippi in a (failed) attempt to get people to notice him. New York Times writer David Carr even tagged along for a stretch, and the book couldn?...
Ballard met his late successes with a brisk, ironic air. His final book, a memoir, was full of warmth and kindness for the people around him, but this poet of the 20th century's dark side was a stoic figure; the visionary had his cult, but he had no equals...
...Local!” Davis, the chef of Henrietta’s Table, a restaurant at the Charles Hotel, was promoting “Fresh and Honest: Food from the Farms of New England and the Kitchen of Henrietta’s Table.” Davis penned the book to promote local farmers and products. He spoke ruefully about the difficulties small farmers face when competing with more profitable mass-market farms. But he said that he was hopeful that small farms are making a comeback as the average American starts to “care more about where...