Christopher Moore’s A Dirty Job introduced us to Charlie Asher, a reluctant Death Merchant, widower, and […]
The Girl Who Slept with God, by Val Brelinski
There’s a line from the movie Juno that kept floating through my head as I read […]
The Uninvited, by Cat Winters
Cat Winters’ The Uninvited zipped by so quickly that I was in the last chapters before I […]
Katrina, by Gary Rivlin
Reading Sheri Fink’s Five Days at Memorial last month has given me a strange fascination for Hurricane Katrina […]
Do Not Sell at Any Price, by Amanda Petrusich
Last spring, I read John Jeremiah Sullivan’s long article for The New York Times Magazine, “The […]
Allegiance, by Kermit Roosevelt
In the Author’s Note at the end of Kermit Roosevelt’s Allegiance, Roosevelt writes, “The story of […]
All This Life, by Joshua Mohr
I can remember when my dad first got us online. We had AOL and it […]
Half-Resurrection Blues, by Daniel José Older
There aren’t a lot of job opportunities out there for a man who’s half dead. […]
Five Days at Memorial, by Sheri Fink
Anyone who’s attended an introductory college course on philosophy will recall the fiendish ethical puzzles […]
The Devil’s Only Friend, by Dan Wells
The Devil’s Only Friend, by Dan Wells, is the latest novel in Wells’s series about John […]