‘Spent’: addicted to shopping & credit cards
(Part three of my memory lane ramblings. Follow my R&R Twitter feed on this page or on Twitter at @joesview.) We’ve had countless memoirs about drug addiction and all sorts of sexual debauchery,...
View Article‘Breed’ — somewhere Ira Levin is smiling
With its realistic Manhattan setting, and pregnancy paranoia plotline, the new novel “Breed” (Mulholland Books/Little, Brown) will draw comparisons with “Rosemary’s Baby.” Chase Novak does borrow a few...
View Article‘Salinger’: messy account of reclusive author’s life & work
The Shane Salerno documentary “Salinger” underwent more than 10 minutes of cuts while it was still in first run release last summer — a highly unusual procedure for any film — and here’s hoping the...
View Article#FridayReads ‘Frog Music’ by Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue has followed her international bestseller, and book club favorite, “Room” with a powerful crime novel “Frog Music” that Little Brown will publish April 1. Borrowing a page from Ruth...
View Article‘Last Girl’: barrier-breaker Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers was a part of the show business scene for so many years that most of us took her for granted and didn’t spend much time thinking about how she worked her way to the center of pop culture....
View Article‘The Identicals’: two sisters, two islands
Little Brown is publishing the 19th novel by Elin Hilderbrand today — “The Identicals” — and it upholds the standards of one of our best popular novelists. What once seemed like the limitation of every...
View Article‘Couple’: how does Elin Hilderbrand do it?
Another summer, another beautifully crafted Elin Hilderbrand novel – “The Perfect Couple,” published last week by Little, Brown and Company and already riding high on best-seller lists. The novel once...
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