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Hag-Seed

September 19, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Felix Phillips, reeling from the death of his daughter, has been deposed as artistic director of the Makeshewig Theater Festival by his unscrupulous associate. After years in exile, he emerges with a plan to get his revenge – a plan that involves teaching theater to prisoners and creating a real-life version of The Tempest. For the play’s the thing wherein he just might catch the conscience of those who wronged him… and maybe his own as well… The […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Advance Review, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Hag-Seed, Hogarth, Hogarth Books, Hogarth Shakespeare, Literature, Margaret Atwood, review, Reviews, The Tempest, Theater

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Vinegar Girl

June 6, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Kate Batista is a strong-willed woman nearing 30. She went from being a promising biologist to being a college dropout, taking care of her doddering scientist father and bubbly, boy-crazy younger sister – and she doesn’t quite know what comes next. Meanwhile, her father’s research assistant’s visa is about to expire and so the two men cook up a plan to keep Pyotr in the country. All they need is Kate to agree to marry him… The Review: The […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Advance Review, Anne Tyler, Baltimore, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Hogarth, Hogarth Books, Hogarth Shakespeare, Kiss Me Kate, Literature, Reviews, Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, The Taming of the Shrew, Vinegar Girl, William Shakespeare

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The Tsar of Love and Techno

October 2, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: In 1937, a Soviet censor engages in a small act of rebellion by painting his brother into all the works he’s also censoring. One particular painting, an otherwise ordinary pastoral landscape, goes on to touch the lives of several individuals during the tail end of the 20th / early days of the 21st century. The Review: I was caught off guard by how much I loved Anthony Marra’s debut novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena. A novel about […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: A Novel in Stories, Advance Review, Anthony Marra, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, History, Hogarth Books, Literature, Reviews, Russia, Short Stories, The Tournament of Books 2016, The Tsar of Love and Techno

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The Gap of Time

September 30, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Leo and Xeno are childhood best friends – but when Leo’s manic jealousy gets the better of him in adulthood, believing that Xeno is having an affair with Leo’s wife, it splinters not only their friendship but Leo’s family. But all that is lost can be found again and, some sixteen years later, a young girl named Perdita and a boy named Zel fall in love – and bring two families back together again. The Review: Covers are […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: Advance Review, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Hogarth, Hogarth Books, Hogarth Shakespeare, Jeanette Winterson, Literature, Reviews, Shakespeare, The Gap of Time, The Winter's Tale, Theater, William Shakespeare

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