California Edan Lepucki Little, Brown and Company Release Date: July 8, 2014 ISBN 978-0-316-25081-8 I’ll admit it – I’m not reticent about jumping on the bandwagon sometimes, even if it’s just because someone says “Jump On!”. If I wasn’t, I would never have picked up Edan Lepucki’s post-apocalyptic story California, […]
Snapper Brian Kimberling Pantheon Books Release Date: April 23, 2013 ISBN 978-0-307-90805-6 If you enjoy reading novels that spin around a wry and witty stream of consciousness, you are going to enjoy Brian Kimberling‘s new book, Snapper – unless you’re from Indiana. Then you may not be quite so appreciative […]
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.