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Idaho is the best novel I have read in years. It follows more than fifty years in the lives of Jenny, who performs a terrible act early in the book, and the family she leaves behind. The prose is truly insightful, with metaphors that leap off of the page– memory scatters like “dozens of blackbirds, …
In 2008, when I went back to work at Powell’s Books after maternity leave, I took whatever sections needed a keeper. I had been the head of Young Adult and Fairy Tales and other sections in Children’s books for a few years. I considered myself an expert, a harbor of knowledge about out-of-print editions and …
Alexander Maksik is the author of three novels, the most recent of which is out this season as a paperback original from Europa Editions. Shelter in Place is told by Joe March, a Northwesterner looking back on his life, especially the years of his early adulthood. While tending bar, Joe meets more than his match in …
They all smell the same. Ghosts of a thousand casseroles. You may be on a road trip, but the proprietor will never let you use the bathroom. Even if you spend a century note. You will forge on, nonetheless. Magpie, you can spot the sparkle from twenty yards. These are the thrift stores of the …
