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Publishers Weekly

In this elevated career guide, Bronson (Bombardiers; The Nudist on the Late Shift) poses the titular question to an eclectic...

Publishers Weekly

“I am Carlos’s wife, but I am first myself,” is the message of this candid memoir of Santana’s personal evolution...

The New York Times reviews Still Wild at Heart, and... by Catherine Texier

Barry Gifford’s new collection of stories, Sailor’s Holiday, is a kind of sequel to Wild at Heart, his 1990 novel.

The New York Times reviews Books of the Times: Sex... by Janet Maslin

A recent 16-page supplement to Publishers Weekly, titled “The Relaunch of Clive Barker,” breathlessly described the full range of Mr....

San Francisco Chronicle reviews Upstairs Investigator Was Downstairs Staff by David Lazarus

There isn’t a lot of room for originality in the sleuthing genre, but Jacqueline Winspear has come up with something...

The New York Times reviews Exile on Sesame Street by Elissa Schappell

The alternative style of parenting Pollack and his wife, Regina, subscribe to is built on the desire to raise a...

The New York Times reviews Books in Brief: Fiction &... by Jonathan Miles

That Gifford forges these characters almost entirely out of dialogue makes their affecting humanity doubly impressive

Pleiades 27.2 (2007): 211-215... reviews Poems in Spanish by Joshua Kryah

The title of Paul Hoover's ninth collection of poetry is misleading.  Poems in Spanish is not, in fact, written in...

Oakland Tribune reviews 'Good Family' Digs Deeper into... by Diane Weddington

Often a second novel is not the equal of a first. In Gamble's case the second novel is even stronger.