Review: Utterly Monkey
I really wanted to like Utterly Monkey: A Novel by Nick Laird. I’m a sucker for anything with a British accent of any sort and this book got some rave reviews. However, it also got some pretty negative comments as well. Unfortunately, I turned out to be on the more negative side of the…
continue readingReview: The Good Life
My review of Jay McInerney’s The Good Life posted at PopMatters. Yall know of my affinity for this novel so I won’t go on and on about it. Just check out the review here.
continue readingReview: Dermaphoria
My review of Craig Clevenger’s fantastic Dermaphoria was finally posted yesterday at PopMatters. It’s a great book, with unique imagery, that is amazingly, bewilderingly, hauntingly, wonderful. Check out the full book review here.
continue readingAhhh, the Free Rein of the Successful
Joe Queenan is one of my favorite writers and his New York Times book review of Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies by Greg Crister makes me realize how nice it must be to have free rein from editors. As aspiring authors, we often aren’t given room to run,…
continue readingPornified Review Misses One Key Criticism
Megan Rosenfeld’s The Trouble with Smut review in Sunday’s Washington Post examined two recent books about the way pornography and exhibitionism are changing the way men and women interact. The review focused on Pamela Paul’s Pornified: How Pornography is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families and Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise…
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