Dudebooks: Story of the Eye & Hot Water Music

About a month ago, The Rejectionist guest-posted at Tiger Beatdown on the subject of manfiction. She explained that manfiction… …is indeed, almost but not entirely exclusively, a book by a man; but it is a particular kind of book by a particular kind of man, a Real Man, a virile, manly man, who gallops around

War Dances; How I Became a Famous Novelist; Never Let Me Go

I’m so behind on reviews!  I was slammed with work/life in May, and I let my writing slide–but not the reading!  I’m now soaking up all the free time I have before summer session begins and I have to get back to work.  Some quickie reviews to catch up: War Dances Sherman Alexie, where have

Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It is Maile Meloy’s latest collection of short stories.  The stories are not related by subject or theme, though each of the stories quietly glimpse at their protagonists’ troubled lives. This was my first time reading Maile Meloy, and I was pretty disappointed with the collection.  The

Brownsville: Stories

I wish I had read Oscar Casares’s debut collection of stories when I was living in New York and feeling homesick; I read this in one sitting!  Set in Brownsville, Texas, Brownsville definitely captures the essence of life in the Rio Grande Valley.  The Texas-Mexico border is at times a world all of its own,

The Pura Principle

Junot Diaz has a new short story in The New Yorker! This makes me a very, very happy person.  The man is my literary crush, people.  You have no idea.  (Ahem, when he signed my copy of Drown, he wrote that I have “the greatest smile.”  *swoon*)  😉