Tag: backlist books

In the week running up to Iceland Writers Retreat, I really dove into Icelandic fiction. It turns out that Icelandic novelists can be pretty challenging,...

Children in Reindeer Woods. What. The. Fuck. I’m glad I didn’t have to read this book for a course because that is all I have...

In preparation for Iceland Writers Retreat, I am reading books by each of the featured authors. It feels a little weird to review authors who...

In the introduction to My Kind of Place, Susan Orlean confesses that she loves to travel – even to places that don’t sound wonderful. When...

Crows and squirrels. Beggar’s Feast is crowded with these urban vermin, potent symbols whose meaning I could never quite make out, just as I could...