Last week I gave you thumbnail recommendations of five novels written between 1961 and 1986 that make me swoon. Here are five more spanning the period from 1989 until the early 2000s. THIS WEEK The Remains Of The Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989) Poor Things, Alasdair Gray (1992) Kafka On The Shore, Haruki Murakami (2002) Cloud…
My family and friends call them “Bruce Books,” in voices that are filled with love and despair and a desperate need to flee the room before I press copies in their hands. If they make the mistake of taking a book, they know I will turn up in a corner of their bedroom some night…
Near the beginning of Veilpiercer, our plucky hero Cabalynne takes an elevator into the bowels of a secret complex hidden under the Denver airport, joining a group of employees who will be disassembling obsolete equipment for giant tech corporation Arrgle. Chapter 4 begins: “Fifty Recyclopath employees were led into the Arrgle complex through a maze…
Congratulations! You finished the first draft of your novel or memoir. Everyone has a different writing process. Some authors forge ahead as they write their first draft, never looking back, putting notes aside about plot points that will need to be cleaned up later. I’ve heard there are others (cough) who obsessively read the work…