On Saturday I happened to be passing by one of my new favorite stores, Desert Island Comics , and decided to stop in on a whim. I left with ...

At this point I've read a lot of books about the history of New York City, so much of the content of this book was nothing new to me (in...

My god has it been a long time since I've posted anything. No excuses, really, other than laziness--but I'm coming back with somethi...

Here's one I should definitely re-read. In Cold Blood is widely considered to be the first non-fiction novel, the story of a 1959 murde...

My first introduction to William T. Vollmann came in an interview in BookForum about five or six years ago. I was intrigued, and decided to...

I bought this typography book at an estate sale a couple of years ago. (Please excuse the slightly blurry and unappealing photo.) The books ...

The Lime Twig is a surreal, avant-garde novel melded with pulp crime fiction. (Many a review describes it as something like Dick Francis me...