Quips and Quotes: Book Reviews by Linda

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 […]

Hell of a Book alternates between two main stories. A nameless Black author tells his […]

Cal and Beth Jarrett are an ordinary couple raising two children. One son drowned while […]

Amelia Wright likes animals more than people. As in the screenplays he writes, Adam Wright […]

Sally Rooney says that her characters sacrifice themselves to love others. In reading about Marianne […]