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 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...
