Sophie Atwater is the earnest, hardworking PR agent at the heart of The Star Attraction. The job doesn’t pay well but the perks include leftover celebrity swag, going to A-list events and restaurants as a business expense, and hobnobbing with Hollywood royalty. She is one of the most valued agents at the firm Bennett/Peters and when the opportunity to work with rising star ... Read More...
Seating Arrangements
Seating Arrangements is the weekend long drama of the Van Meter family, gathered in their house on Waskeke Island, off the New England coast. For the family patriarch it is a time largely viewed as a disturbance to the normal stately pace of his life. The tiny minded Winn Van Meter, lives up to his last name by meting out every penny and every action as receivable or payable ... Read More...
The Morels
The Morels is Christopher Hacker’s provocative debut novel about a novel that begins with a chance encounter between the narrator and an old classmate named Arthur Morel. The narrator, who in an interesting twist, remains anonymous throughout the book, is attempting to become a documentary filmmaker. When he goes to the NYC apartment of the man editing his current film he ... Read More...
The Woman Upstairs
We’re the quiet woman at the end of the third-floor hallway, whose trash is always tidy, who smiles brightly in the stairwell with a cheerful greeting, and who, from behind closed doors, never makes a sound. In our lives of quiet desperation, the woman upstairs is who we are, with or without a goddamn tabby or pesky lolloping Labrador, and not a soul registers that we are ... Read More...
When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man
Those of us left behind dug in. Through the fall, through the winter, it seemed we lived on the border of a real life lived elsewhere. It seemed that the absence was ours somehow, not theirs, that we were the ones who were gone. When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man is an aptly titled debut that takes place on Loyalty Island, off of Washington State, where the ... Read More...
Dear Lucy: A Novel
“There are words that I am looking for and when I find those words I will know that they were the words I was looking for, to tell people about the shapes of things inside me.” As Dear Lucy begins there is a sense that the narrator, Lucy, is a bit off. Her determination to be acknowledged as good and useful is extreme and the lengths to which she goes to be heard become ... Read More...
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