by LB | Mar 7, 2019 | At Home in the Dark, Books
Thomas Pluck’s website tells us he’s slung hash, worked on the docks, and even swept the Guggenheim museum (but not as part of a clever heist). He hails from Nutley, New Jersey, we’re advised, home to criminal masterminds Martha Stewart and Richard...
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 Admin | Mar 4, 2019 | Anthologies, Books, Matthew Scudder, News + Events, Newsletter
Okay, I give up. What’s that header supposed to mean? It means I couldn’t think of a title. The one thing I have to do today is get this newsletter out, and the first step toward that end is to come up with a header, and I couldn’t do it. Um…...
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...
by LB | Feb 27, 2019 | Books
In his advance review in Booklist, Wes Lukowsky gives special mention to “Joe R. Lansdale’s chilling ‘The Senior Girls Bayonet Drill Team,’ which depicts a high-school competition in which sport and butchery have joined hands.” And Publishers...
by LB | Feb 26, 2019 | Anthologies, Books
Here’s what Publishers Weekly had to say in a starred review of Laura Benedict’s new novel, The Stranger Inside: “Kimber’s complicated personality and unusual family life drive the ever-twisting, surprise-filled plot. Angry and jealous as a child and...
by LB | Feb 25, 2019 | Anthologies, Books
From Publishers Weekly: “Ed Park’s warm and winning fiction debut, Personal Days, is narrated by a collective we of youngish Manhattan office grunts who watch in helpless horror as their company keeps shrinking, taking their private world of in-jokes and...
