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Metropolitan Stories by Christine Coulson

Catherine — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 04:18:42 +0000

Regardless of where you live, if you love the art and artifacts of human history, then you’re probably familiar with Metropolitan Museum of Art. When I lived in NYC it was one of my favorite places to go and explore. Where you could sit on a bench for as long as you wanted and look […]

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The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra

Catherine — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 07:55:43 +0000

I could not pass up the opportunity to share the love again for a book that I adored. I’m not a big short story reader, but Marra connects the dots so well that The Tsar of Love and Techno reads like an abstract art of a novel. It comes out in paperback tomorrow so if you missed […]

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The Tsar of Love and Techno

Catherine — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 08:23:41 +0000

For art to be the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer. The Tsar of Love and Techno begins in 1937 Leningrad with a nameless censor. A man whose artistic skill is such that his sole purpose is to erase people deemed to be enemies of […]

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A Wild Swan: And Other Tales

Catherine — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:44:58 +0000

When I think of Michael Cunningham many things about his writing come to mind: poetic, compelling… so many adjectives, and yet funny is not among them. Not that he is dark or his writing is without joy, but until I read his newest book, a series of short stories called A Wild Swan, he’d never made […]

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Of Things Gone Astray

Catherine — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:14:38 +0000

Magical realism is the moving force behind author Janina Matthewson’s, Of Things Gone Astray, an enchanting novel about the everyday realities of life. In it she follows six different people in London who wake up one day to find that something important in their lives has disappeared. For Mrs. Featherby it is the entire front […]

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Let Me Be Frank With You

Catherine — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 08:00:54 +0000

Frank Bascombe is back in Richard Ford’s Let Me Be Frank With You and I, for one am happy to see him again. Ford’s last novel, The Lay of the Land, covered Bascombe’s travails through his mid-fifties in a way that perfectly encapsulated the middle-age process of fight and accept. In Let Me Be […]

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Bark: Stories

Catherine — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:04:48 +0000

I’m going to start with a little confession: I’ve never read Lorrie Moore before (say that three times fast). Why not? Who knows? But now after finishing her latest collection of short stories, called Bark, I can say I’m fan. And if you’re one of those people who wants to buy free-range poultry, brine it, and […]

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The Color Master

Catherine — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 07:26:21 +0000

Aimee Bender’s The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is one of my favorite books. Her combination of magical and realism makes for poetic, moving reading. Last month her newest book of short stories, The Color Master, came out, and it shimmers with its ability to be both fantastical and utterly human. In “The Doctor and […]

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Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives

Catherine — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:05:15 +0000

Apparently, I’m getting all adventurous and flexible in my old age. Penguin Books was kind enough to send me a new anthology of crime fiction short stories. Crime? Short stories? Neither is a genre I read. I don’t look down on them either, but there are only 24 hours in a day. So, it was […]

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