A young pastor wearing an acid-wash denim shirt and designer glasses shaped like
safety goggles recently announced on Twitter that the location of his new church
is in your pocket. He created an
Diane Setterfield’s atmospheric and entirely-charming new novel, Once Upon a
River, released this week by Emily Bestler Books, takes place in the mid-19th
century, an age suspended between Darwin and divination. The
Jesse Ball’s novels are odd. In The Way Through Doors, for example, the various
storylines layer so deeply I lose track of which is the core line. In The Curfew
, my favorite,
It’s ridiculous to point this out, but the synopsis on the back of Mark
Leidner’s new short-story collection, Under the Sea, gives a dependable taste of
the book as a whole:
When Susan Orlean’s new book arrives next week at my branch library, it will be
assigned the Dewey decimal number 027.4794, which puts it in class 000, the
designation for Computer
