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1. Choose Your Own Adventure

Author

Bell, Matt

Subjects
Brat (Novel) -- Smith, Gabriel, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Abstract

Gabriel Smith's shape-shifting debut, ''Brat,'' cycles through a multiverse of strange possibilities. BRAT, by Gabriel Smith In the wake of his father's death and his mother's move to a nursing [...]

Published
2024

2. Wake-Up Call

Author

Bell, Matt

Subjects
Literature/writing
Abstract

In Rupert Thomson's new novel, ''Dartmouth Park,'' the sound of a mundane beep triggers in one man what may be either a revelatory metaphysical journey or a bout of male [...]

Published
2023

3. On Trial

Author

Bell, Matt

Subjects
Sterling Karat Gold (Novel) -- Waidner, Isabel, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Abstract

In Isabel Waidner's novel ''Sterling Karat Gold,'' a violent attack on a nonbinary immigrant leads to a surreal, Kafkaesque tribunal. STERLING KARAT GOLD, by Isabel Waidner Isabel Waidner's third novel, [...]

Published
2023

4. Is It a Moral Awakening or Just One Man’s Midlife Crisis?

Author

Bell, Matt

Subjects
News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

In Rupert Thomson’s new novel, “Dartmouth Park,” the sound of a mundane beep triggers in one man what may be either a revelatory metaphysical journey or a bout of male [...]

Published
2023

5. Dark Wells

Author

Bell, Matt

Subjects
Fairy Tale (King, Stephen) (Novel) -- King, Stephen -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
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In King's latest novel, a teenage boy discovers another world beneath a backyard shed. FAIRY TALE, by Stephen King Stephen King is no stranger to the portal fantasy genre, or [...]

Published
2022

6. A Family Drama Unfolds as Ecological Disasters Mount

Author

Bell, Matt

Subjects
Disaster victims, Climatic changes, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

“Blue Skies,” by T.C. Boyle, considers life in a coastal America made increasingly untenable by climate change. BLUE SKIES, by T.C. Boyle “Blue Skies,”T.C. Boyle’s 19th novel, opens with Cat, [...]

Published
2023

7. They Were the Victim of a Bigoted Assault, but They’re the One on Trial

Author

Bell, Matt

Subjects
News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

In Isabel Waidner’s novel “Sterling Karat Gold,” a violent attack on a nonbinary immigrant leads to a surreal, Kafkaesque tribunal. STERLING KARAT GOLD, by Isabel Waidner Isabel Waidner’s third novel, [...]

Published
2023

8. The Shape She's Shifting

Author

Bell, Matt

Subjects
Little Nothing (Novel) -- Silver, Marisa -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Abstract

LITTLE NOTHINGBy Marisa Silver336 pp. Blue Rider Press. $27. Marisa Silver's beguiling new novel, ''Little Nothing,'' is a powerful exploration of the relationship between our changeable bodies and our just [...]

Published
2016

9. Influence Looming

Author

Bell, Matt

Subjects
Fat City (Novel) -- Social aspects, Jesus' Son (Short story collection) -- Social aspects, Books and reading -- Appreciation -- Influence, Literature/writing
Abstract

Novels have two primary ¡sources: writers' life experiences or their art experiences -- ¡although I suppose more religious writers might also make room for divine inspiration. While it's popular in [...]

Published
2015

10. Not Dead Yet

Author

Bell, Matt

Subjects
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales (Short story collection) -- Atwood, Margaret -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Abstract

STONE MATTRESS Nine Tales By Margaret Atwood 273 pp. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. $25.95. ''Stone Mattress,'' Margaret Atwood's first collection since ''Moral Disorder'' in 2006, begins with three linked stories about [...]

Published
2014

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