Month: September 2014

Crime Fiction: The Good Life 
by Frank Wheeler Jr.

September 19, 2014 admin 0

(Editor’s note: The following review comes from Steven Nester, the host of Poets of the Tabloid Murder, a weekly Internet radio show heard on the Public Radio Exchange [PRX]. Nester is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Rap Sheet, Mystery Scene and Firsts Magazine. He last wrote for January Magazine about Kevin Cook’s non-fiction work, Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America.) Sometimes to do the right […]

Can’t We Just All Get a Long (List)?

September 18, 2014 admin 0

Two quite different long lists of book prize contenders have been announced this week. First off, we have the rundown of nominees for the 2014 National Book Award for fiction, as reported by The New York Times: • An Unnecessary Woman, by Rabih Alameddine (Grove Press) • The UnAmericans, by Molly Antopol (Norton) • Wolf in White Van, by John Darnielle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) • All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr […]

Crime Fiction: Robert B. Parker’s Blind Spot
by Reed Farrel Coleman

September 15, 2014 admin 2

(Editor’s note: This review comes from Lee Goldberg, the author of Mr. Monk Gets Even and — with Janet Evanovich — the forthcoming Fox and O’Hare thriller, The Job. Goldberg and business partner Joel Goldman recently launched the Brash Books line of crime novels.) Robert B. Parker died in 2010, but his characters Spenser, Jesse Stone and Virgil Cole have lived on in new books by other authors. Ace Atkins pulled off a miracle by […]

New This Week: The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

September 2, 2014 admin 0

I wonder if David Mitchell likes the fact that when he publishes a novel, it’s an event. I mean, suddenly everyone is talking about his work. Everyone is either full-on loving it or not getting it at all. If I think about the rush for advance copies last June, when Random House gave away a few hundred copies of his new novel, The Bone Clocks, it’s probably a good indicator of the pandemonium that’s just […]