It’s a quick read, but I think the subject is problematic; I don’t remember music pre-Elvis, so it’s difficult for me to relate to how much he changed it, and while he’s a unique figure …

An interesting story, marred at great and poorly written length by myriad inexcusable misspellings and the occasional exclamation-point cluster-bomb.   Read the section on the scandal in Baseball Babylon instead to get all the relevant …

It’s a semi-depressing read, but Sikes’s prose stays out of the way of the subject, which is impressive in a book about girl gangs; occasionally she editorializes and you’re like, “Yeah, we get it,” but …

I’d had this for ages; New York (…I think) happened to recommend it in the current issue; I was bored last night, grabbed it, and read it in more or less one sitting.   I …

Like I did Running With Scissors, I read this in one day, and I love his writing; it’s so conversational and clean, like a friend’s house where everything is just so, but lived in, too. …

Caroline Knapp is such a wonderful writer — direct and exact, unfussy, and it’s so difficult to talk about things like addiction and self-loathing, particularly as they affect women, without getting bogged down in the …

I’d seen the movie and I’d read other DuMaurier, and I’m not sure why she’s not better known; all the stories are quite suspenseful and only dated in the charming way.   It’s an excellent …

I want to kick Judge Burnett in the shins.   Great book, though — very well written.

I can’t recommend it enough.   Cometbus started out as a punk-show ‘zine and evolved into a sort of Samuel Pepys-type chronicle by the pseudonymous Aaron Cometbus, and his writing is direct and funny and …

Should have been more interesting than it was — it was evocative in parts, but often, Solomon is very clearly trying to be lyrical, but falls into cliches and works against herself.   The writing …