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The Clasp

May 20, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Kezia, Nathaniel, and Victor were friends in college – and now, all of them approaching thirty, they find that the world has battered them a little more than they’d hoped. After a rocky reunion at a friend’s wedding, all three are separately set down a path of adventure that will lead them to Paris and the Normandy coast, bringing them together at the estate of Guy de Maupassant… The Review: My ten-year high school reunion will be this fall, […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: BEA15, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, Sloane Crosley, The Clasp

Fates and Furies

September 21, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: On an auspicious collegiate evening, Lotto meets Mathilde. Two weeks later they are married and their relationship over the next twenty years is a study in the realities of love and partnership. Then, after tragedy strikes, the fated Lotto’s story gives way to that of the furious Mathilde – and the true depths of a partnership are revealed. The Review: There’s a recurring comment in the theater community, one often tossed off as a sort of joke, that the […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: 6, BEA15, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fates and Furies, Fiction, Greeks, Lauren Groff, Literature, Love, Marriage, Reviews, Romance, The Tournament of Books 2016, Theater

City on Fire

August 3, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: On New Year’s Eve 1977, a young woman is shot in Central Park. How does she connect to a newspaper reporter, a fireworker, a Long Island kid who wants to be punk, some philosophical rebel-punks, and one of the wealthiest families in the city? More importantly, how do all of these people connect – and how do they survive in a city that seems on the edge of total collapse? The Review: I am baffled that Knopf isn’t […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Advance Review, BEA15, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, City on Fire, Fiction, Garth Risk Hallberg, New York City, Reviews

The Killing Kind

July 15, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Michael Hendricks is a hitman who only kills other hitmen. He does it to protect the innocent, or nearly-innocent, and hopes to clear his slate after he should’ve died in Afghanistan. But when he ends up the target, he has to use every tool in his arsenal to protect himself and those he still loves. The Review: Sometimes, you get onboard with an author early on. I was lucky enough to stumble onto Chris Holm just after the […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: Action, Advance Review, BEA15, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Chris F. Holm, Chris Holm, Fiction, Reviews, The Killing Kind, Thriller

Armada

June 29, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Zack Lightman much prefers the videogame worlds he lives in as opposed to the real world but when he sees an actual flying saucer straight out of said videogames, he starts to wonder if he’s losing it. Turns out, that videogame was a training simulator – because the alien invasion is real. And it’s coming today. And Zach just joined up to fight for Earth. The Review: Ready Player One came out of nowhere, it seemed. It was like […]

Categories: Fiction, Sci-Fi • Tags: Action, Advance Review, Adventure, Armada, BEA15, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Ernest Cline, Ernie Cline, Fiction, Literature, Music, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Space, Video Games

BookExpo America 2015

May 31, 2015 by Drew

THE BIG STACK. It didn’t fall over, which I thought was impressive. Another year, another BEA. Although not quite the same as it was last year: indeed, the gods of commerce have spoken and decreed that, lo, BEA shall be 2.5 days and BookCon shall have a full 2 all unto itself! Tremble before ReedPop! (Having had a pretty miserable time at the BookCon/BEA overlap day last year, I wasn’t about to drop additional money to get in this year […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: BEA15, BookExpo America, BookExpo2015, Books, Dani Lencioni, Drew Broussard, Events, Features, Javits Center, Lots of Books, Recap, Recaps

Raging Biblio-holism

The overwhelming urge to collect, consume, and consider books

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