In Andrew Fox's hilarious first novel Fat White Vampire Blues, he has created an Ignatius Reilly (A Confederacy of Dunces) of the undead, and as in John Kennedy Toole's famous ... Read More

My Life, Bill Clinton's 957 page memoir, was released yesterday by Knopf Publishing, and by most accounts, the book is more of a big work than a great one. From initial ... Read More

Paul Auster is one author who likes to write novels about novelists, and continues to be consistently entertaining and provocative in doing so. Auster's latest novel, Oracle Night, is another ... Read More

David Sedaris' Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim is yet another collection of essays (Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked) based on the diary he has kept every day ... Read More

June 16, 2004 marks 100 years since Leopoldo Bloom and Stephen Dedalus journeyed their way epically through Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses. Joyce actually penned the fictional events of ... Read More

I’m psyched. Boulder appears to be jumping on the One Book... bandwagon started a few years back in Seattle. The public library is behind the One Book, One ... Read More

Shortlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize and for the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction, Margaret Atwood’s 2003 novel, Oryx and Crake, is so compelling that readers may find their view ... Read More

T.C. Boyle's ninth novel is nothing short of the satirically evocative fare we've come to expect from the master storyteller. It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to ... Read More

Things Worth Fighting For is the collected articles and columns of Michael Kelly, award-winning reporter, war correspondent, columnist, and editor, whose passion for the good story and whose candor and ... Read More

The success of Peter Jackson's cinematic adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is a double-edged sword for J.R.R. Tolkien scholars endeavoring a serious study of the author's works. In ... Read More