A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
Klein's sprawling, anxious, scattershot approach to her material offers an objective correlative of what she claims was her mental state leading up to the writing of the book.
Bringing these stories together in one place highlights the genre contributions of Black writers.
"My next task is to figure out how to do audiobooks."
Other considerations aside, this represents one of the strongest Giller shortlists in years.
The more obviously generic elements of the story are less unsettling than the very real horrors of racism and family strife.
"Fosse blends a rootedness in the language and nature of his Norwegian background with artistic techniques in the wake of modernism."
Reading Koja's novel in 1991 was a revelation, as well as a reminder that horror is able to deal with large themes and philosophically weighty subject matter.
Weirdly, horror fiction is one of those places capable of provoking a sense of calm.
PEN America found an "escalation of book bans and censorship in classrooms and school libraries across the United States."
Wolff is not interested in a sober analysis of Fox News and its pernicious effect on the American polity.