In late 2013, cartoonist and humorist Allie Brosh turned her popular webcomic into a bestselling graphic novel: Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened. Brosh's online fans will find little here that disappoints; except for the absence of a few of the web-version's most popular strips, Hyperbole … Continue reading Hyperbole and a Half: A Review
Blurbs from The Wallcreeper's cover will tell you its author, Nell Zink, has a literary pedigree. They aren't wrong. Both the endorsement from Jonathan Franzen and the comparison to Don DeLillo are well-deserved. Zink has mastered the art of writing the weirdness of postmodern human interaction. Wallcreeper follows narrator Tiffany as she navigates her poor … Continue reading The Wallcreeper: A Review
In Saints at the River, Ron Rash weaves together political relationships at multiple levels--family, small town, state, and national--to form a story in which there is no right and wrong, where there are no winners or losers. There are just people, and none of them are perfect.
A short and sweet review of Julia Otsuka's short and sweet first novel, When the Emperor Was Divine.
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