Bookshots: 'Death of the Black-Haired Girl' by Robert Stone
Review by Cath Murphy
Robert 'Dog Soldiers' Stone's new novel searches for redemption in a New England college town.
Bookshots: 'Flushboy' by Stephen Graham Jones
Review by Joshua Chaplinsky
Time for some literary urinalysis: A review of SGJ's latest.
Bookshots: 'Princesses Behaving Badly' by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
Review by Teeney Hood
A non-fiction romp through the lives of some of history's strangest, craziest, and angriest princesses.
Bookshots: "A True Novel" by Minae Mizumura
Review by Leah Rhyne
With "A True Novel," Minae Mizumura transports readers from Japan to New York and back to Japan in a memoir-like story of classism, poverty, and star-crossed love.
Bookshots: "The Cage" by Martin Vaughn-James
Review by Christopher Shultz
This trippy precursor to the graphic novel, once out-of-print and hard to find, now has a spiffy new edition from Coach House Books.
Bookshots: 'The Pure Gold Baby' by Margaret Drabble
Review by Cath Murphy
Drabble picks up the thread of her 1965 novel 'The Millstone' in a tale of parenthood, missed opportunities and the anthropology of London suburbia.
Bookshots: 'Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him' by David Henry and Joe Henry
Review by Naturi Thomas-Millard
The rise and fall of the controversial comic, set against an American backdrop of tumult and change.
Bookshots: 'Want Not' by Jonathan Miles
Review by Cath Murphy
Jonathan Miles gets to the heart of modern life with a story about how what we want and don't want shapes us.
Bookshots: 'Red Sky in Morning' by Paul Lynch
Review by Leah Dearborn
New author Paul Lynch uses sensational imagery to create an arresting tale of murder and revenge in the early 19th century.
Bookshots: 'Happy Mutant Baby Pills' by Jerry Stahl
Review by Keith Rawson
Sex, drugs, and Christian online dating! Let's get ready to rumble with Jerry Stahl's latest satirical opus.
