Author: LindaL

Susan Orlean begins a journalistic investigation of an orchid thief, John Laroche. She ends up […]

I have read almost everything Lily King has written. She is a fabulously gifted writer, […]

The setting is the 1970s in suburban Chicago in New Prospect Township, and Crossroads delves […]

Josef K. is under arrest, and he doesn’t know why. He works at a bank; […]

In 1983, Toni Morrison explained in an interview with Tom LeClair that a tar baby […]

I knew of Charles Blow from his columns in the New York Times. His writing […]

We are All Completely Beside Ourselves is a most unusual family story which takes sibling […]

Ike Randolph, Black ex-con, and Buddy Lee Jenkins, white ex-con, develop an unlikely friendship after […]

Flannery O’Connor is known for writing in Southern Gothic tradition. The subject matter she chooses […]

Unlikely Animals takes place in the fictional Everton, New Hampshire, loosely based on the real […]