West Oversea by Lars Walker
I have followed the writing of Lars Walker for some time (at Brandywine Books, The American Spectator, etc.). And I was vaguely aware of this fiction writing b...
Tag: Fiction
In the Mail: troubled youth fiction edition
–> The Magicians by Lev Grossman Kirkus Reviews Grossman (Codex, 2004, etc.) imagines a sorcery school whose primary lesson seems to be that bending th...
Monster's Proof by Richard Lewis
I am not sure I am an “objective” critic of Richard Lewis and his writing. I have been a fan since his first book The Flame Tree and enjoyed his su...
In the Mail: Mark Sanford Memorial Edition
–> American Adulterer by Jed Mercurio Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Mercurio’s third novel is a riveting imagining of the inner life of a sat...
Shimmer by Eric Barnes
The word I bet you will hear used a lot to describe Eric Barnes debut novel Shimmer is “timely.” With the sentencing of Bernie Madoff, and the gene...
The Vanishing Sculptor by Donita K. Paul
It must be Christian fiction week here at CM as today we have another example; although very different from the Shack. The Vanishing Sculptor is not theology t...