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Drew Hart

Book Review: “Nobody Gets Out Alive” — A Big, Brash Book of Alaskan Stories

You will have to be up for this short story collection ; you will learn a lot about a corner of the world that’s rarely captured, and is done so here exceptionally well.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Drew Hart, Leigh Newman, Nobody Gets Out Alive

Book Review: “Mecca” — A Wonder of an American Canvas

This is an immensely complex, deeply atmospheric story of the working class, of immigrants with global origins, many who are descendants of early settlers.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Drew Hart, Mecca, Susan Staright

Book Review: “Foreverland” — Bound Until Death

Here’s to Heather and Bill, and this lively saga…

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Drew Hart, Foreverland, Heather Havrilesky

Book Review: “What Just Happened” — Memorable Thoughts on “A Long Year”

From the pandemic’s beginning, Charles Finch uses the crisis as a nearly daily backdrop for musings on all sorts. The results are at once cathartic, frightening, exasperating, and often hilarious.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Charles Finch, COVID-19, Drew Hart, What Just Happened

Book Review: “The Recent East” — Exploring Seldom Seen Territory

Thomas Grattan, a New Yorker with German roots, displays an observant eye and a way with dialogue in his first novel.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Drew Hart, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, The Recent East, Thomas Grattan

Book Review: “Desert Oracle” — Dwelling on the Fringe

Desert Oracle is an omnibus, a kind of hand drawn map, as well as a bit of a crackup — something you will peruse and possibly find the route leading to a deeper dive.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Desert Oracle, Drew Hart, Ken Layne

Book Review: Nicole Krauss’ “To Be a Man” — A Virtuoso Performance

Nicole Krauss’ new book of short stories generates a curious, understated, but genuinely transporting spirit, pretty much throughout.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Drew Hart, Harper Collins, Nicole Krauss, To Be a Man

Book Review: “The Silence” — Brusque Prophecy

Many Don DeLillo fans will overlook this novella’s somewhat stilted dialogue and perfunctory erotic scenes for the sake of another taste of his dark and knowing world.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Don-DeLillo, Drew Hart, The Silence

Book Review: “Cuyahoga” — An Old-Fashioned Medicine Show of a Read

Filled with galoots of all kinds, the novel might not have any true reason for existing, nor may it have any reason to end. But heck, it’s a good, old-fashioned, medicine show of a read.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Cuyahoga, Drew Hart, Pete Beatty

Book Review: “Pew” — Someone Truly Out of This World

In no way a ‘tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing’, Pew is instead a kind of reverie, a wide-eyed spin on the Southern novel.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Catherine Lacey, Drew Hart, Pew

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