Dick King-Smith's The School Mouse Illus. Cynthia Fisher Hyperion, 1995 The School Mouse is one of the books chosen by Shireen Dodson in her book 100 Books for Girls to Grow On, a list that I've been pulling from since 2008. It seemed the perfect choice for September: Back-to-School. And that's just what
Karen Russell "The Dredgeman's Revelation" The New Yorker Fiction: 20 Under 40 July 26, 2010 issue This is the first of The New Yorker's 20Under40 stories that has left me feeling absolutely certain that I'll be following up with a longer work by the writer. (Not including the writers whose work
Good Fiction Guide, Ed. Jane Rogers 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2005 Booklist: Sexual Politics by Maureen Freely Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1873-7) Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928) Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928) Madeleine Bourdouxhe's Marie (1943; 1997 English translation) Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (1955) James
Banana Yoshimoto's Hardboiled and Hard Luck (1999) Trans. from the Japanese by Michael Emmerich (2005) This is the last of Banana Yoshimoto's works that have been translated into English that I had to read; if it had been the first of her works that I'd read, I don't think I'd
Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (2007) Art by Ellen Forney Little Brown, 2009 A few years ago I saw Sherman Alexie at a ridiculously underattended reading in a small Toronto bookstore on a fine Friday night in summer. I remember wondering if there wasn't something
