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Tolkien, In Lovingly Used Condition
The wife reveals her most battered book, and a nice memory from her childhood.
July 21, 2006 in Books | Permalink
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- "Moonlight"
(decomP) - "Quit These Hills"
(Big Pulp) - "Mercy Day"
(RAGAD) - "Deep in the Northwoods"
(Wheelhouse Magazine) - "Howard Holds Court"
(Birmingham Arts Journal) - "Waiting On a Train"
(RAGAD) - "Power"
(The Clarity of Night) - "Guaranteed"
(Spillway Review) - "Big Question"
(Boston Literary Magazine) - "This Time"
(55 Words) - "Immortality"
(THE2NDHAND) - "Freewheeling"
(Dogmatika) - "The Fixer"
(Gapers Block) - "Ralph's Last Call"
(The Angler) - "Can't Be Happy Today, But Tomorrow"
(Skive Magazine) - "Mighty Casey"
(Zisk) - "Ectoplasm"
(Storyglossia) - "Captions Without Photos"
(Gapers Block) - "Blown"
(Writer's Resource Center) - "Have A Pleasant Commute On Metra"
(This is Grand) - "The Retreat"
(monochrom) - Published Here:
"The Copper Responds"
"One Evening in St. Paul"
"The Lovely Miss Underwood"
"Insomnis"
"We Do Not Approve"
"The Ghoul's Evening Visit"
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Recent Reads
- Richard Grayson: Highly Irregular Stories
Another fine story collection from Grayson - four chapbooks from early in his career. -
- Michael Chabon: Maps and Legends
Nice collection of essays which celebrates genre writing in its many forms. -
- Ben Tanzer: Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine
Another winner - boy meets girl, pop culture is dissected, sadness fades to hope. -
- William Maxwell: So Long, See You Tomorrow
Lovely novel of three families in small town Illinois during the 1920s. -
- James Agee and Walker Evans: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Frustrating and exhilirating - a thorny classic. -
- Erskine Caldwell: Tobacco Road
Grim but invigorating novel of destitute sharecroppers in 1930s Georgia. -
- Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye
Truly great noir of murder, passion and absolution. -
- Herman Melville: Billy Budd, Sailor
Fair, but hardly a classic. -
- Nikolai Gogol: The Overcoat
Funny, sad and strange tale of a lonely clerk and his quest for dignity and respect. -
- Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim
Overwritten, ponderous, poorly structured - sad, for what should have been a masterpiece. -
- Mark Sarvas: Harry, Revised
Good debut novel about grief, starting over and Dumas. -
- Kent Haruf: Plainsong
Lovely, warm novel of small-town life. -
- Paul Fattaruso: Bicycle
Charming little collection of micro-fictions about, yes, bicycles. -
- Aleksandar Hemon: The Lazarus Project
Magnificent novel of the past and present, longing and belonging. -
- Mark Russell: The Superman Stories
Funny and clever stories about the everyday life of the Man of Steel. -
- Hjalmar Söderberg: Doctor Glas
Masterful novel of longing, fateful decisions and death. -
- Nelson Algren: Never Come Morning
Gripping early novel from the master. -
- Billy Lombardo: The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories
Good collection of coming-of-age stories from Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood. -
- Flann O'Brien: The Third Policeman
Less than satisfying comic tale of life, death and bicycles. -
- John McGahern: The Barracks
Sensitive, emotionally gripping Irish novel of a distant husband and wife. -
- Al Burian:Burn Collector: issues one through nine
Solid collection of the first nine issues of the great zine. -
- Jim Thompson: The Kill-Off
A uniquely told twist on the conventions of crime fiction by one of the giants of the art. -
- Chris Abani: Song For Night
Powerful and often harrowing novella of war and remembrance. -
- E.M. Forster: Howards End
Great novel about the English social classes, how they interact and what responsibilities they have to each other. -
- Jon Krakauer: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Gripping, thoroughly researched account of murder and the dark side of religious faith. -
- Calvin Trillin: Travels With Alice
Warm collection of anecdotes of Trillin's family travels in the Mediterranean and Caribbean. -
- Verlyn Klinkenborg: The Last Fine Time
Uneven account of a working-class bar in Buffalo, just after WWII. Has its moments, just not enough of them. -
- Rick Kogan: A Chicago Tavern: A Goat, a Curse, and the American Dream
Lovely memoir of Chicago's legendary Billy Goat Tavern, by one of its loyal denizens. -
- George W.S. Trow: Within the Context of No Context
Rambling, muddled, murky essay that's likely not worth your time. -
- Kurt Vonnegut: A Man Without a Country
Charming collection of essays from the late great novelist. -
- Richard Warch and Jonathan Fanton (editors): John Brown: Great Lives Observed
Balanced, non-partisan collection of writings on the legendary abolitionist. -
- Ted McClelland: Horseplayers: Life at the Track
Lively account of a year spent wagering - and mostly losing - at Chicago's thoroughbred racetracks. -
- J. Matthew Smith: Jailed by My Father
Warmly-told collection of autobiographical essays. -
- Nathanael West: The Day of the Locust
Dark, bitter, sometimes bitingly funny tale of Hollywood's woeful underclass. -
- Ben Tanzer: Lucky Man
Daring, innovative and emotionally moving debut novel about four troubled friends. -
- William Trevor: The Hilll Bachelors
Yet another excellent collection of Irish short stories from the master. -
- Charles D'Ambrosio: The Point
Solid story collection from the renowned writer, with the tighter pieces being the best of the lot. -
- Steven J. McDermott: Winter of Different Directions
Smart collection of short stories about lost souls and uncertain futures. -
- James M. Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice
Sharp, riveting piece of classic noir. The main characters are doomed, just as they should be. -
- Edgar Lee Masters: Spoon River Anthology
Fascinating poetic exploration of small-town America - but much too long and often repetitive. -
- Sinclair Lewis: Babbitt
Brilliantly insightful satire of an upstanding citizen and the unsettling discontents stirring within him. -
- Knut Hamsun: Hunger
Simply put, one of the greatest novels ever written, and the finest I've ever had the pleasure to read. -
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Well written but (sorry) less than classic novel of Jazz Age New York. -
- Herman Melville: Bartleby the Scrivener
Wonderful story of a stubborn employee and an excessively patient boss in mid-19th Century Manhattan. -
- Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio
Marvelous, wide-ranging, emotionally moving cycle of stories about the lonely and seeking inhabitants of a small Midwestern town. -
- Joe Pernice: Meat Is Murder
Slow-starting but good-finishing tale of a Smiths record on one youngster's life. -
- Cormac McCarthy: The Road
Powerful novel of father and son wandering through a post-apocalypse wasteland. -
- Ian McEwan: Atonement
Magnificent, gripping and emotionally moving saga of small actions and their enormous repercussions. -
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