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The editor made a big thing out of not including “The Necklace,” which I think is a mistake; it’s probably his strongest story. These are good, but it took me a while to get …
Hilaaaaaarious. A group of people sitting around making catty comments about various movies is sometimes hard to translate to the page, but Hensley does a great job with it. His friend Tony and …
Read it in one day. It’s sort of a Sedaris/Mary Karr hybrid, but that’s not a bad thing, and it’s not derivative, I didn’t think, although it might seem like I thought that. …
Probably the best written of the S.E. Hintons, but with the least likable characters. Rusty-James is a straight-up jackass.
It’s a bit dry sometimes, but totally worth grinding through the slower spots, because it gives you a really good sense of the world at that time and the background on certain Big Moments In …
A very quick read. The writing is somewhat uneven in terms of the diction, because Stacy Horn goes back and forth between kind of parroting tough detective-speak and writing more formally and deeply about …
I’m glad it was short, because after a while, that affected Southern Gothic business gets to be a bit much. McCullers is a good writer, but does every character have to be fucked up …
It could have used tighter editing in several spots, but it’s very funny.
The authorial editorializing bugged me, right up until the end; DiLorenzo’s tendency to clutch his pearls dilutes his arguments. I will admit that I don’t particularly want to believe any of the evidence against …
The title pretty much says it all. I love Ken Smith’s writing style, and it’s a super-fast read, really interesting (but kind of depressing at the same time; the Charles Goodyear chapter is so …