Desirable BodyHubert Haddad, trans. from the French by Alyson Waters. Yale Univ., $16 trade paper (232p) ISBN 978-0-300-22436-8
In this sharp and provocative novel from Haddad (Rochester Knockings), Cédric Erg is a journalist who’s made a name for himself by targeting Big Pharma and the oil industry, all the while hiding the fact that his father is Morice Allyn-Weberson, head of a giant pharmaceutical lab. Cédric’s ... Continue reading »
What if This Were Enough? Essays Heather Havrilesky. Doubleday, $25.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-54288-3
These incisive essays by New York magazine columnist Havrilesky (How to Be a Person in the World), some previously published in shorter versions, invite readers into the contradictions of upper-middle-class American life. She’s interested in “how we ingest and metabolize” the “broa... Continue reading »
Blame This on the BoogieRina Ayuyang. Drawn & Quarterly, $21.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-77046-318-9
Ayuyang (Whirlwind Wonderland) graduates from the micro-press comics scene with this delightfully quirky, cheekily funny memoir built around her love of musicals, rendered in wonderfully kinetic, colored-pencil drawings, perfectly expressing her sentiment that, when she hears music, “It’s l... Continue reading »
Let the Whole Thundering World Come HomeNatalie Goldberg. Shambhala, $16.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-61180-567-3
In this moving memoir, Goldberg (Writing Down the Bones) shares the story of her battle with cancer. After she is diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Goldberg struggles to make sense of her suddenly conspicuous mortality. She admits that, when she came to face her own death, her tr... Continue reading »
Blame This on the BoogieRina Ayuyang. Drawn & Quarterly, $21.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-77046-318-9
Ayuyang (Whirlwind Wonderland) graduates from the micro-press comics scene with this delightfully quirky, cheekily funny memoir built around her love of musicals, rendered in wonderfully kinetic, colored-pencil drawings, perfectly expressing her sentiment that, when she hears music, “It’s l... Continue reading »
Twisted PreyJohn Sandford, read by Richard Ferrone. Penguin Audio, , unabridged, 9 CDs, 11.5 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-525-52514-1
Sandford’s 28th Lucas Davenport novel, enhanced by an appropriately gruff narration by Ferrone, pits the lawman against an old foe: the beautiful and wealthy sociopath Senator Taryn Grant. Davenport was unable to stop the three-times murderer from winning her senate seat in Silken Prey (201... Continue reading »
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