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 …

My mom read me “The Lottery” one day when I stayed home sick from school; I’ll never forget it.   I thought it was the best story I’d ever heard in my life; I had …

I adored it.   Not quite as much as the first one, but I don’t think I adore any book as much as I do the first one, and as I did when I finished …

I love this book very very much.   It is lovely and funny and heartbreaking, and you should go find a copy and read it right now.   No, right now.

Some of the prose is a little in love with itself, but justifiably; just when I start to get annoyed by the more anvilicious parallel-drawing, he’ll switch gears and evoke a scene so vividly that …