By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The Hard Way is the quintessential Jack Reacher novel. When it was first published back in 2006, it was the tenth novel by Lee Child to feature the American ex-military policeman turned drifter and modern-day ‘knight errant’. Child’s publishing schedule had become as regular as Reacher’s inner clock (he […]
There has been one single experience that taught me more about storytelling than anything else in my life: telling bedtime stories to my children. Live audiences can be merciless; ask any comedian. Workshopping fiction can be rough, too. But I’d submit that while your own children won’t heckle you or carve up your prose with […]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Dialogue with the Mirror’ is a 1949 short story by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. Published when he was just twenty-two years old, it is an early work written when Márquez was still finding his way towards his mature style. In the story, a man looks at himself […]
Love in the Archives: A Patchwork of True Stories About Suicide Loss by Eileen Vorbach Collins EILEEN VORBACH COLLINS’S new memoir-in-essays, Love in the Archives: A Patchwork of Stories About Suicide Loss , is about the liminal space of parental grief and the big questions that inevitably follow: What happened to that which animated my […]
It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all of the new books coming out each month. And, as a result, it’s easy to miss or put off getting books that came out in hardcover, even the ones that garnered all the buzz. But fear not: the paperback reprints of February (also, how is it already February […]
From “Pepper & Me.”Credit…Beatrice Alemagna A story of gross beauty from David Sedaris and Ian Falconer, a scabrous tale from Beatrice Alemagna, and more. From “Pepper & Me.”Credit…Beatrice Alemagna Bruce Handy is the author of three picture books: “The Happiness of a Dog With a Ball in Its Mouth,” “The Book From Far Away” and […]
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