It’s official. I’ve just finished reading a book that will now join the slim ranks of the ‘greatest books I’ve…
Confession time: I was a scared kid growing up. And I mean fucking terrified. My imagination was fertile, and it…
I stumbled upon this gem completely by chance in a bookstore a few years ago. I’d never heard of the…
Quite possibly the most chilling and horrifying book ever written, ‘Blood Meridian’ is a unnerving glimpse of humanity at its…
When you hear the name Denis Johnson, you inevitably think of Jesus’ Son, the book that put the man on…
If ‘The Speed Queen’ proves anything, it’s that Stewart O’Nan is one hell of a storyteller… and also that hard…
The writers I enjoy most are men of few words. So much can be said with so little when done…
Everything from love and loss to happiness and sheer horror is covered in this book. One moment the writing is slick as oil, the next it is jagged as broken glass. It’s downright chaotic in places where the mental states of the storytellers are in question
Thick, dense, and sprawling… not my usual fare, but I simply could not put this book down. ‘Any Human Heart’…
Donald Barthelme is one of the most inventive, surrealist, post-modernist writers out there, and that’s saying something. Whether you actually…
