Playworld , by Adam Ross, is a long, often dense, sometimes directionless novel about a teenage actor’s coming of age in early 1980s NYC. Bu...

Earlier this summer, I put up a poll on Instagram asking which "dead white guy" book I should read this summer: Lonesome Dove , Th...

We booksellers often joke at the bookstore that when someone comes in to ask us for a vague recommendation like "I just want a good pag...

I'm writing this in a bookstore.  RoscoeBooks . The bookstore at which I've been a part-time bookseller since November of 2014 -- ne...

I love it when a book unwittingly (or perhaps very wittingly) describes itself. Here's a sentence from Michael Clune's debut novel, ...