The Room
If you鈥檝e ever worked in a corporate office, you鈥檝e likely heard the phrase, 鈥淧erception is reality.鈥 To Bj枚rn, the office worker who narrates Jonas Karlsson鈥檚 novel The Room, the reality is simple: there鈥檚 a door near the bathroom that leads to a tidy little room with a desk. Inside this room, he feels a ...
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Latest Review: "The Room" by Jonas Karlsson
The latest addition to our Reviews section is a piece by Peter Biello on The Room by Jonas Karlsson, translated by Neil Smith and out from Hogarth. Peter Biello is the host of All Things Considered at New Hampshire Public Radio. He has served as a producer/announcer/host of Weekend Edition Saturday at Vermont Public Radio ...
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Guys Like Me
We all know Paris, or at least we think we know it. The Eiffel Tower. The Latin Quarter. The Champs-脡lys茅es. The touristy stuff. In Dominique Fabre鈥檚 novel, Guys Like Me, we鈥檙e shown a different side of Paris: a gray, decaying side that reflects, more than anything else, the emotional state of the storyteller, an ...
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Latest Review: "Guys Like Me" by Dominique Fabre
The latest addition to our Reviews section is a piece by Peter Biello on Guys Like Me by Dominique Fabre, translated by Howard Curtis and out from New Vessel Press. Here’s the beginning of Peter’s review: We all know Paris, or at least we think we know it. The Eiffel Tower. The Latin Quarter. The ...
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Latest Review: "The Skin" by Curzio Malaparte
The latest addition to our Reviews section is a piece by Peter Biello on The Skin by Curzio Malaparte, translated by David Moore and out last year from New York Review Books. If you’re looking for some post-WWII-themed, summer reading with disturbing imagery that would blow Jane Yolen and her time-traveling YA hit out ...
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Commentary
Commentary is a book that defies simple categorization. Marcelle Sauvageot鈥檚 prose lives in the world of novel, memoir, and philosophical monologue as the narrator, a woman recuperating in a sanatorium, muses on the nature of love and examines her own crushed heart. Originally published in French under the title Commentaire ...
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Latest Review: "Commentary" by Marcelle Sauvageot
The latest addition to our Reviews section is by Peter Biello on Commentary by Marcelle Sauvageot, translated by Anna Moschovakis (and introduction from Jennifer Moxley), published by Ugly Duckling Presse. Peter not only runs the Burlington Writers Workshop, but is also a friend to Open Letter鈥攚e had the pleasure of ...
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