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The Ballad of Black Tom

November 4, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Charles “Tommy” Tester is a hustler in Harlem in 1924. He takes care of his dad and makes an okay life for himself – but after he delivers a most mysterious package, he becomes increasingly caught up in a world of strange happenings. After he’s invited to play a white man’s party in Queens, he disappears – only to reappear as something far darker and far less himself… The Review: I was reading the transcript of a […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: A Visit to October Country, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, H.P. Lovecraft, Horror, Literature, Lovecraft, New York, Novella, review, Reviews, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Horror at Red Hook, Tor Publishing, Victor LaValle, Weird Fiction

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The Assistants

April 25, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Tina is the executive assistant to the founder of Titan Corporation, a multinational media conglomerate. When an accounting mixup offers her the chance to pay off her student loan debt, she does the unexpected and takes it – but another assistant notices and so the two fall, intentionally or otherwise, into a Robin Hood-esque scheme to help girls like them. Now they just have to make sure they don’t get caught. The Review: I was an assistant […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Advance Review, Assistants, Book Reviews, Books, Business, Camille Perri, Debt, Fiction, Literature, Millennials, New York, Reviews, Student Loans, The Assistants

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A Little Life

November 16, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Jude St. Francis arrives at college with crippled legs and an unplumbable past. He falls in with three other guys, fast becoming a nearly inseparable foursome. And as life goes on for the quartet, Jude must finally come to terms with his past while also overcoming illness, pain, and heartbreak in the present. The Review: I don’t know that giving an author a second chance has ever been so rewarding. You see, I very much disliked Yanagihara’s first […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: A Little Life, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Hanya Yanagihara, Literature, New York, Reviews, The Tournament of Books 2016

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Ragtime

November 9, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: A family struggles to define itself, an immigrant struggles to make a life, a man struggles for respect, and a nation struggles overall in this kaleidoscopic view of the opening decade or so of the 20th Century, as seen by New Yorkers both famous and ordinary. The Review: I’ve seen the musical version of Ragtime several times and I can’t really call any of it to mind. Friends, many of whom have performed in it, adore the show but […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, BookClub, Books, Coalhouse Walker, E. L. Doctorow, Emma Goldman, Evelyn Nesbit, Fiction, Henry Ford, Historical Fiction, History, Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Literature, New York, New York City, Ragtime, Reviews

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Infinite Home

August 19, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: An oddball collection of tenants in an old Brooklyn apartment building must come to terms with their elderly landlady’s sudden slide into dementia – and her son’s greedy plan to evict them. But, for Edward and Paulie and Thomas and Adeleine, there might not be anywhere else for them to go. The Review: Have you ever lived somewhere crowded? Whether it’s an apartment building or a street in a suburban development, there’s an unmistakable knowledge that comes from living near other […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Apartments, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Family, Fiction, Infinite Home, Kathleen Alcott, Life, Literature, New York, Reviews, Williams Syndrome

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New York 1, Tel Aviv 0

May 1, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Stories about relationships, mostly romantic ones and many with an eye towards what it is to be displaced – from your home, your life, your lover’s bed, or something else entirely. The Review: It has taken me a while to write this review. It’s not because I didn’t like the book – I didn’t dislike it, at least – but rather because it felt so ephemeral. Few of the stories really hit home, many more didn’t hit at […]

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, FSG Originals, Literature, New York, New York 1, New York 1 Tel Aviv 0, Reviews, Romance, Shelly Oria, Short Stories, Stories, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv 0

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Shovel Ready (Spademan #1)

March 4, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: After a dirty bomb decimates Times Square, New York City empties out in one way or another. Those who can afford it slip into the limn, a perfect virtual reality, while those who can’t either leave the city for good or become shells of their former selves. Spademan is one of the last: a former garbage man and husband, now hardened hit man. But when he stops short of killing a pregnant girl, he finds himself going up […]

Categories: Fiction, Noir, Sci-Fi • Tags: Action, Adam Sternbergh, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Dystopia, Fiction, New York, New York City, Noir, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Shovel Ready, Spademan

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Prince Lestat

November 17, 2014 by Drew

The Short Version: The world of the vampires has been in turmoil. A mysterious Voice calling on the young and old alike to burn their brethren, scientists in the Blood changing the very nature of vampirism, and that dashing brat prince Lestat is nowhere to be found. But he will be found – and will be charged with his greatest role yet – before the night is through… The Review: Nobody does it quite like Anne Rice. Interview with the Vampire, of course, […]

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Literature • Tags: Anne Rice, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Horror, Lestat, Literature, New Orleans, New York, Prince Lestat, Reviews, The Vampire Chronicles, The Vampire Lestat

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BookExpo America 2014

June 2, 2014 by Drew

Some swag, yo.  I’m actually pretty stoked about every single one of these. Hard to believe it – but a whole year has gone by since last year’s trip to the Javits Center for BookExpo America.  And this year, as Memorial Day Weekend began to recede, felt rather like it snuck up on me.  I had not been as intensive about planning – although a few last-minute scribbles of a schedule did, in fact, help out this year – and […]

Categories: Events • Tags: BEA14, BookCon, BookExpo America, BookExpo2014, Books, Events, Features, Javits Center, New York

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