Robert G. Kaiser, a veteran reporter for the Washington Post, has written a magisterial account of how Congress is broken with “Act of Congress.” Continue reading Act of Congress, by Robert G. Kaiser @ NYJB
In this week’s installment of CCLaP’s “The NSFW Files,” Karl Wolff investigates the 1928 Georges Bataille shocker, “Story of the Eye,” a very early precursor to bizarro fiction. Continue reading The NSFW Files: The Story of the Eye, by Georges Bataille
Drugs are bad. Over at CCLaP, I review The Heroin Chronicles, edited by Jerry Stahl. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: The Heroin Chronicles, edited by Jerry Stahl
Over at CCLaP, I reviewed The Lazarus Machine: a Tweed & Nightingale Adventure, by Paul Crilley. Steampunk fun for those who like the witty dialogue of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Warehouse 13 Continue reading CCLaP Mini-review: The Lazarus Machine: a Tweed & Nightingale Adventure, by Paul Crilley
“In its crisp brevity, End of the Good Life should be read by the under- and unemployed millions of Millennials.” Continue reading End of the Good Life, by Riva Froymovich @ NYJB
Today’s book review: “The Blue Kind,” a dystopian drug novel by Chicago-area author Kathryn Born, and put out by academic imprint Switchgrass. Says reviewer Karl Wolff, “More novelists writing in science fiction should take these kinds of chances.” Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: The Blue Kind, by Kathryn Born
Nothing Serious, by Daniel Klein is “. . . a rollicking farce . . . a tightly plotted comedic tale with a genuine emotional center and a sharp satirical wit.” Continue reading Nothing Serious, by Daniel Klein @ NYJB
“Gold Rush in the Jungle” is a book of opposites, discovery vs. extinction, economic development vs. environmental devastation . . . Continue reading Gold Rush in the Jungle by Dan Drollette, Jr. @ NYJB
Today at CCLaP, Karl Wolff reviews “Keeping Bedlam at Bay in the Prague Cafe,” by M. Henderson Ellis, a comedic ride through post-communist Prague with John Shirting in his quest to set up a coffee franchise. Says Karl, “Like some madcap mashup of ‘Confederacy of Dunces’ and ‘The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret.'” Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: Keeping Bedlam at Bay in the Prague Cafe, by M. Henderson Ellis
This week at CCLaP I review “The Nazi Seance” by Arthur J. Magida, in which a famous mind reader hides his Jewish identity as he consorts with Nazis. Continue reading CCLaP Fridays: The Nazi Seance, by Arthur J. Magida
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