Where is your nonfiction section please.
Photo of Baroque bookshelves in the Austrian National Library in Vienna, © Jorge Royan / http://www.royan.com.ar, via Wikimedia Commons I couldn't confine my favorites to one year end best list. I need three! First, here's the companion to my midyear best-so-far-titles published in 2017 list. Next week, my favorites read but not published this year, plus a final... Continue Reading →
I wasn't planning to do a midyear best-of list, and July is already half gone, so...well past the halfway mark. But realizing how many truly excellent nonfiction titles have come out already this year, I thought a year-end recap would be way too long if I didn't collect some standouts from the year's beginning! And... Continue Reading →
Book review: The Red Parts, by Maggie Nelson Amazon The Red Parts defies categorization. In the broadest terms it's a memoir, but it's also true crime, literary theory, narrative nonfiction, social commentary, philosophy, and in case you're in doubt about any of its genres or topics, it's written with a beautiful poetic voice, just making... Continue Reading →
What's Nonfiction? 