Brad Gooch’s Memoir, ‘Smash Cut’, Is That of a Literary Connoisseur
Gooch traces the life of '70s and '80s New York with his partner, Howard Brookner, with humour and poignancy.
Book Bites
‘Get in Trouble’ Doesn’t Trouble Itself With Literary Convention
Kelly Link's imaginative, sometimes challenging, stories follow their own rules but they never take the easy way out.
I Was Poisoned by Arnold Lobel’s Children’s Fable, ‘Frog and Toad’
Lobel could have done his little gay readers an immeasurable and un-parallelled service. Instead, he set us up for perpetual disappointment.
‘Cornbread Nation 7: The Best of Southern Food Writing’ Is American Regionalism at Its Finest
A splendid collection of tales of Southerners traveling abroad and children of immigrants living in the South and reflecting on their heritage.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Monster Inches a Little Closer
Daniel Levine finds the unique in what we thought was very familiar.
Walter Mondale’s ‘Good Fight’
Walter Mondale is remarkably engaged and up-to-date for a man who held the Vice Presidency more than 33 years ago.