Month: June 2021

The subtitle is ‘a novel’ but is it? I would argue that it is fiction but doesn’t use enough of the story telling elements to get earn that subtitle. Maybe that too is the put on. “Interior Chinatown’ takes the form of a screenplay but…

This is one of the those titles and authors that ring slight American Lit bells for no particular reason. I saw it at a book sale and thought, I’d check it out. The structure of the book is almost indescribable and is what makes it…

The author’s interview on the ‘Longform’ podcast prompted me to read this novel. Most of the reviews focus on the personal elements, the adultery, the main character’s plight as a one hit cartoon wonder but few of the reviews emphasize the question posed in the…

Inspired, Erratic, Promising, Clunky First EffortWhite Teeth is an exploration of race, genetics, belief and family set mostly in the eighties and early nineties with flashback to WWII and the seventies. Zadie Smith has a pungent, comic style that is readable but not moving. I…

Reading literary fiction feels like coming home after consuming the speculative thriller, ‘2034, A Novel of the Next World War.’ ‘Weather’ is written in the first person and only concerns the pedestrian life of Lizzie a librarian at a university with a child, a husband,…