Fiction Archive |
The Friends of Eddie Coyle - Peter Blauner, who wrote some of the best “Law & Order” episodes and, more recently, a chilling crime novel, says" “I think ‘Eddie Coyle’ is the best crime novel I've
The Garden of Eden - I was talking with a well-known novelist --- female, if you must know --- about Ernest Hemingway. I praised the early books, especially the first one, The Nick Adams Stories. She
The Gift of Gifts: A holiday story - O.Henry (William Sydney Porter) wrote The Gift of the Magi for his New York World column in December, 1905. If you know anything about him, you won’t be surprised that
The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing - "The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing” was published in 1999. I inhaled it. The characters were people I kind of knew. They spoke the way I wanted my characters
The Good Earth - Once upon a time, Pearl S. Buck's 1931 page-turner of a novel was the one book about China that everyone had to read. It won the Pulitzer Prize. It won
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel - GUEST BUTLER: Elise O'Shaughnessy was my editor at Vanity Fair. Ah, those were the days. I'm not crazy about clubs, whether they'd have me as a member or not. And
The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion - Oprah goofed. Yes, Oprah --- everyone's pal Oprah, please-run-for-President Oprah, sure-to-be-beatified Oprah --- has made a boo boo. Doesn't happen often. But when it does...well, this time she's blown an entire summer. All
The Handmaid’s Tale - Washington, D.C.: A judge understood that a cesarean section might kill a seriously ill 27-year-old woman who was 26 weeks pregnant. Still, he ordered that she undergo the procedure. Both
The Help - I first heard about "The Help" soon after it was published in February of 2009. But it was 444 pages. I put it off. Very quickly, the novel became a bestseller. Soon “The
The Help: An Exchange of Letters - I’m not the guy you go to when you want to find The Hot and The New, but after months of watching women on the bus weep as they read
The Ice Princess - Nine million people live in Sweden. Camilla Läckberg has sold three million books there. She is, her publisher boasts, “the most profitable native author in Swedish history.” And if Läckberg and her supporters
The Informer - It may be a sign of our times that Berlin between the world wars, in the period when Weimar gave way to Nazism, seems much on our cultural consciousness. The
The Laughing Monsters - Guest Butler Robert Smith is a semi-retired music-business executive, a part-time painter and resident of Los Angeles who still cherishes his east coast roots and proclivities. He is an occasional
The Leopard - Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s only novel was rejected by Italy’s most distinguished publishers, so he died in 1957 without learning that “The Leopard” would become the best selling novel in Italian
The Lie - I want to tell you about this disturbing, erotic, haunting novel by a veteran writer you have never heard of. But on the off-chance you will find The Lie too
The Little Match Girl - “A Christmas Carol” was too long to read to children, so in 2013, I cut it in half --- just as Charles Dickens did when he read it in theaters.
The Lost Daughter - A movie to look forward to, twice in a week? I haven't seen "The Lost Daughter," but I've read Elena Ferrante's novel and watched the trailer --- it's here ---
The Lost Wife: a novel - There is no fable we like quite as much as the fable of a woman of low birth who endures hard times, perseveres, and triumphs. The first half of Susanna
The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars - Maurice Dekobra? His name is now almost completely forgotten, but in 1927 he published a novel called “The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars" that sold a million copies in France. (It
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit - Before there was "Mad Men," there was.... If you've got a long memory, like old movies or have chatty parents, a 1955 novel comes to mind. Okay, so Tom Rath isn't an
