Adam Ross, author of the acclaimed novel, Mr. Peanut, and former teacher at the prestigious Harpeth Hall Girls’ School in Nashville, Tennessee, has been nominated for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Presented annually by the British magazine Literary Review, the judges hope “to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant […]
Lorrie Moore is a wonderful writer. I’ve read her short stories and love them. But this novel, A Gate at the Stairs, I did not love. Tassie Keltjin is a student at a mid-western college in need of a job. She signs on as a nanny for a middle-aged couple who adopt a biracial child. […]
If you like dark and dreary, cancer reoccurring and reoccurring and reoccurring, this is an okay book. Thirteen year old Anna Fitzgerald, conceived to be a donor for her dying sister Kate, scrapes up $168 to hire a lawyer. In her short life she’s donated stem cells, lymphocytes, bone marrow, and granulocytes. Now they want […]
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