https://rb.gy/tkiln8 I didn’t realize Taffy Brodesser-Akner was writing the Great American Novel until about halfway through. Before that, I was reading in fits and starts. I thought it was an out of control comic novel, until I realized it was not. And then I was driven to finish it. You won’t have the same experience […]

https://rb.gy/9arc1d I couldn’t put this book down. And the problem is…if I tell you anything about the plot, it will ruin it. First and foremost it’s an easy read. Not “simple,” but “contemporary.” No airs. Rufi Thorpe does have an MFA, but from Virginia, she’s not a product of the Iowa Workshop, which Hannah in […]

He’s got a new autobiography, “What a Fool Believes.” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/michael-mcdonald/id1316200737?i=1000661890048       https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/597742ac-cba4-41cf-b4e2-103e6b60227c/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-michael-mcdonald  

https://t.ly/qKpqg This is for all of you who complain too many books are bummers. You know David Nicholls. Probably through “One Day.” It was a movie and now a series on Netflix. Not that I’ve seen either. I rarely watch a production of something I’ve read, it’s too compressed, it’s not the vision I have […]