Sunday Morning! “The Spider’s House” by Paul Bowles
The Bowles series continues with Paul’s 1955 novel about the Moroccan independence movement and the struggles of ordinary people to keep a corner of their souls free of political power struggles.
Category: Books
Sunday Morning! “Two Serious Ladies”
Exploring the Bowles cannon continues with Jane Bowles’s more comedic novel about people who also wander halfway around the world to hear their own voice.
Sunday Morning! “The Sheltering Sky” by Paul Bowles
A debut novel that feels a bit like a rupture, not quite like anything that came before it, but marking a great deal that came afterwards. In The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles left all sentiment to die in the desert.
Sunday Morning! “Not Dark Yet”
Berit Ellingsen’s beautiful and enigmatic debut novel details a modern day hermit seeking to avoid doing violence on an alien planet- ours.
Book Notes: “The Hermit in the Garden” by Gordon Campbell
In Georgian England, you could be hired to live as a hermit on a rich person’s land…Right about now, it sounds almost too good to be true.
Sunday Morning! “Some Of Us Are Very Hungry Now” by Andre Perry
“Perry is definitely a writer. His essays are meandering and misshapen, slippery and jagged, they wriggle and bite. But, read them for a bit, sit with them and get to know them, and you find they’re also gentle and wise. I mean, it’s a bit hard to get a bead on them, but that’s how identity is, right?”
Sunday Morning! Two by Arthur Schnitzler
Remembering the masterful Viennese writer whose works depict a high society of childlike adults living in an unreal dream that would, soon enough, give birth to the great nightmares of the twentieth century.
Book Review: “You Talkin’ To Me?” E.J. White
In the case of America, the accepted standard for broadcasting and spoken English sounds more like a Midwestern vernacular
Sunday Morning! “Giovanni’s Room” by James Baldwin
On the end of grief, and James Baldwin’s classic story of grief at the beginning and end of first love.
Sunday Morning! “A Death in the Family” & “Whiteout Conditions”
Viewed from one perspective, a funeral is a unit of measurement marking the gap between our most important questions and the boundaries of our understanding
Sunday Morning! “Death in Venice”
The time felt right to reread Thomas Mann’s novella and watched Lucino Visconti’s 1971 film of desire and disease and our inability to quarantine either of them.
Sunday Morning! “The Vine that Ate the South” by J. D. Wilkes
J.D. Wilkes’s debut novel packs every Southern myth and legend into one epic, rollicking fricasseed Odyssey. Let’s call it Southern Gothabilly.
Sunday Morning! “Stoner” by John Williams
The “rediscovered classic” of academic life does what great art is supposed to do: immerse us in the inner life of an individual without romanticizing him, It is ennobling.
Sunday Morning! “In the Dream House” by Carmen Maria Machado
By subverting her narrative multiple times and in many different ways, the memoirist gives a good idea of the disorientation and terror of an abusive relationship.
Sunday Morning! “The Deeper the Water, the Uglier the Fish” by Katya Apekina
A great and complicated story about an unhappy family where every member is unhappy in their own way.
Sunday Morning! “They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us” by Hanif Abdurraqib
Music writing as autobiography, poetry, & survival. Seriously, read “They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us” by Hanif Abdurraqib right the hell now.
Sunday Morning! “Little Bones” by David Baillie
David Baillie’s second novel is a supernatural mystery set in a surreal crumbling landscape where I live.
Sunday Morning! “The Water Cure” by Sophie Mackintosh
Maybe we could call them “Ms.Topias,” these novels about suffering women under totalizing systems of patriarchal control. They seem to be having a moment.
Sunday Morning! “The Summer He Didn’t Die” by Jim Harrison
In times of stress, it’s good to return to nourishing comfort food, which for me means Jim Harrison’s prose.
Sunday Morning! “Good Citizens Need Not Fear” by Maria Reva
While getting by in strange times, I read a book of short stories about how average Ukrainians got by before and after the fall of Communism.
