by LB | Mar 6, 2019 | At Home in the Dark
It’s tempting to regard Joyce Carol Oates as a force of nature. She so consistently produces such an abundance of well wrought and richly imaginative fiction that one might picture her simply turning on a faucet and letting the words flow. But the fact of the...
by LB | Mar 5, 2019 | At Home in the Dark, Books
“I went east to Greenwich and turned south on familiar cobblestone, heading toward the silver Twin Towers, their crowns hidden in low-lying clouds.” That’s the last sentence of the penultimate chapter of Closing Time, Jim Fusilli’s debut as a novelist, and it...
by LB | Mar 4, 2019 | Anthologies, At Home in the Dark, Books
After a solid apprenticeship as a travel writer and journalist, Hilary Davidson has emerged as an accomplished fictioneer, winning awards for her novels (The Damage Done) and short stories (The Black Widow Club) . She was born in Canada, and when our paths crossed in...
by LB | Mar 1, 2019 | Books
If you can’t get a hardcover copy of At Home in the Dark, blame Joe Hill. Pre-orders for the signed-and-numbered Subterranean Press limited edition were strong early on, but they exploded upon the announcement that Netflix had won a spirited bidding war and...
by LB | Feb 28, 2019 | Anthologies
Noreen Ayres is an accomplished poet as well as an Edgar-nominated writer of crime fiction. She’s best known for her Smokey Brandon mysteries, now getting a well-deserved second life under the imprint of Brash Books. Of Smokey’s debut, A World the Color of...
