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Telegraph Avenue

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Katie Willingham

Telegraph Avenue is a novel by Michael Chabon, © HarperCollins 2012

*Click the book title to see Michael Chabon’s adorable web page for Telegraph Avenue & his fictional Brokeland Records

Posted in Book Review | Tagged absent fathers, blaxploitation, book review, business, California, contemporary fiction, disappointment, entrepeneurs, fatherhood, fathers, fiction, film, jazz, music, novel, Obama, record stores, records | 2 Comments

The Convalescent

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Katie Willingham

The Convalescent is a novel by Jessica Anthony, © McSweeney’s Books 2010

Posted in Book Review | Tagged America, book review, butchering, butchers, change, communication, connection, contemporary fiction, destiny, fate, fiction, health, history, Hungarian, Hungarian history, immigrant American experience, immigrant experience, loneliness, meat, medication, midgets, mutes, novel, odd, pain, perspective, quirky, reality, transformation | 3 Comments

Woes of the True Policeman

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Katie Willingham

Woes of the True Policeman is a novel by Roberto Bolaño and translated by Natasha Wimmer, © FSG 2012

Posted in Book Review | Tagged academia, book review, contemporary fiction, fiction, novel, research, scholarship, south america, south american literature | 2 Comments

Sinners Welcome

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Katie Willingham

Sinners Welcome is a collection of poetry (plus a bonus essay) by Mary Karr, © Harper Perennial 2006

Posted in Book Review | Tagged America, american themes, book review, Catholicism, childhood, contemporary poetry, conversion, God, grief, loss, love, pain, poetry, power, religion, retrospective, transformation, violence | 1 Comment

Autobiography of Us

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Katie Willingham

Autobiography of Us is a novel by Aria Beth Sloss, © Henry Holt 2013

Posted in Book Review | Tagged America, book review, California, choice, contemporary fiction, debut, feminism, fiction, gender, gender revolution, loneliness, love, memory, perspective, retrospective, social causes, social revolution, women | 2 Comments

Leaving the Atocha Station

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Katie Willingham

Leaving the Atocha Station is a novel by Ben Lerner, © Coffee House Press 2011

Posted in Book Review | Tagged abstract, American experience, art, authenticity, book review, boredom, contemporary fiction, contemporary novel, emotional weight, fiction, language, living abroad, loneliness, Madrid, novel, perspective, poetry, power, reality, Spain, translation, travel, urban space, writing process | 2 Comments

American Appetites

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Katie Willingham

American Appetites is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, © Harper & Row 1989

Posted in Book Review | Tagged book review, contemporary fiction, court, death, domestic space, domestic violence, existentialism, fear, feast, fiction, loneliness, novel, perspective, power, power dynamics, relationships, violence | 2 Comments

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