Book Review: Aspects by John M. Ford

Posted on April 3, 2022October 17, 2024 by admin

Book Review: Aspects by John M. Ford Tor Books, 496 pages, ISBN: 9781250269041 $26.99 Hardcover $13.99 e-book Available April 5th, 2022 Until Aspects, I had never read a John M. Ford novel. For that omission, my life as a whole: literary, personal, professional, has been a poorer one. If I were to offer one piece […]

Excerpt from River of Ashes by Alexandrea Weis and Lucas Astor

Posted on March 14, 2022October 17, 2024 by admin

River of Ashes by Alexandrea Weis and Lucas Astor Coming August 2, 2022 “A psychological portrait akin to Lord of the Flies.” ~Midwest Book Review SOME TRUTHS ARE BETTER KEPT SECRET. SOME SECRETS ARE BETTER OFF DEAD. Along the banks of the Bogue Falaya River, sits the abandoned St. Francis Seminary. Beneath a canopy […]

Wastrels and Layabouts: Six Novels with Charming, Workshy Anti-heroes by Peter Mann

Posted on January 5, 2022October 21, 2024 by admin

Wastrels and Layabouts: Six Novels with Charming, Workshy Anti-heroes by Peter Mann Writers are great shirkers, as everyone suspects and all writers know. Our patron saint is Bartleby of Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener, whose great refusal, “I would prefer not to,” is our battle cry against the world of workaday drudgery. For why work when […]