Reflection – Reads A Lot

A Lovely, Unlikable Reflection in “Jerks” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsMarch 24, 2022 by Ian MacAllen

[ad_1] A cottage industry of likability discourse manifests with regularity, and Jerks, Sara Lippmann’s new collection of stories, will no doubt inspire a certain level of curiosity with the subject. The characters are not nice, they are not kind, they are not good people; they are, as the title suggests, jerks. That isn’t to say … Read more

Reflection and Refraction in “The Hard Crowd” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsApril 10, 2021 by Elliot Frank

$Reflection and Refraction in “The Hard Crowd” – Chicago Review of Books$

[ad_1] From the first time I read Rachel Kushner’s novels, I thought about nonfiction. The biting yet elegant voices of her narrators reminded me of literary criticism, and the detailed renderings of people and places I thought resembled journalism. I was evidently not alone in this response: James Woods praised her fiction as possessing “the … Read more