Elise Juska’s The Blessings (2014)

2014-05-28T09:44:33-04:00

As an only child, my fascination with large families in fiction stretches back to the Marches, the Moffats and the All-of-a-Kinds. More recently, Jennifer Close's The Smart One and Jami Attenberg's The Middlesteins catapulted me into chaotic family-soaked gatherings (the latter was one of my favourite reads in 2013). Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group,

Elise Juska’s The Blessings (2014)2014-05-28T09:44:33-04:00

Alice Hoffman’s The Museum of Extraordinary Things (2014)

2020-10-01T16:18:44-04:00

Like Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, Alice Hoffman's novel begins from a place of belonging. Scribner - Simon & Schuster, 2014 Coralie is a professional mermaid in early twentieth-century Coney Island, who grows up with the Wolfman and various other characters who seem to step from the pages of

Alice Hoffman’s The Museum of Extraordinary Things (2014)2020-10-01T16:18:44-04:00

André Kertész’s On Reading

2014-03-09T17:10:51-04:00

André Kertész's On Reading W.W. Norton, 2008 If you were the reader who put me onto this lovely little book, please raise your hand in the ether. It's wonderful. The sort of wonderful that makes me wonder how I could have NOT know about such a gem. You know the

André Kertész’s On Reading2014-03-09T17:10:51-04:00
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