The Southern Reach Trilogy Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance Jeff VanderMeer Release Date: February 2, 2014 / May 6, 2014 / September 2, 2014 ISBN: Annihilation – 978-0-374-10409-2; Authority – 978-0-374-10410-8; Acceptance – 978-0-374-10411-5 Back in November, when I wrote a recommendation for Annihilation, the opening book in Jeff VanderMeer’s “Southern Reach” […]
Submergence J.M. Ledgard Coffee House Press First Edition: April 1, 2013 ISBN 978-1-56689-319-0 It’s an age-old story: boy meets girl, they fall in love then are separated by obligations, with the question of whether or not they end up together in the final chapter. However, J.M. Legard’s novel Submergence is […]
The literary community lost a great talent when Vince Flynn died on Wednesday after a 2-1/2 year battle with prostate cancer. But for those of us who live in the Twin Cities, the loss of the man is every bit as hard as the loss of the author. Not only […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.