When I read this, I felt that little tingle you get, as a reader, when you think you've found a perfect match for your reading taste: Little Brown - Reagan Arthur Books, 2012 "It’s like pulling a thread that unravels and unravels. One loose thread, and you can
Each of us has experienced those moments, when passing noise and bustle, of feeling removed from what really matters. You know, those moments of startling clarity, when you are surrounded by stillness, observing the action but separated from it? Like this, in Frances' words, in Harriet Lane's debut
Last year, on six weekends, I posed about being Buried in ReLit Print, sampling the novels, short stories and poetry (which is adventurous for me) on the longlists. The longlists for the 2012 ReLit Awards were announced last Tuesday and I began making my reading plans that morning. Several of
As with the fiction of Julia Glass and Bonnie Burnard, Meg Mitchell Moore is interested in what makes families work. Reagan Arthur Books - Little Brown, 2011 That's not to say that they always work well: when The Arrivals opens, some aspects of family life are taut and
Just when I was thinking that I've been talking a lot about theme and structure with these stories, and not so much about characterization, along comes a story like "Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Kidd" to make the point. "Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Kidd have known each other eighty years, ever
