LIGHTNING by Felicity Volk (Picador)is an astonishing debut novel boasting pure, perfect crystalline prose, a prodigious intellect, and a propensity of storytelling talent and technique.
In Scheherezade style, Volk beguiles her reader with stories hewn from folk tale and begat …
Ben Brooks’ book LOLITO (Canongate) is puppy love in the age of porno and chat rooms, a brilliant blend of puberty blues and bravado, cut with vulnerability.
Unlike the predatory pedophilia that permeates TAMPA, LOLITO is a lovely, laugh out …
David Sedaris’ Greek grandmother was a leviathan litterer. The woman would throw anything out a car window. The important thing for her wasn’t a clean outside but a clean inside. “Look at the sky, littered with clouds, or the beach …