Published Reviews

Seattle Weekly reviews West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary ON SEPT. 12 of last year, a San Franciscan named Tamim Ansary was driving to work as talk-radio callers demanded, among other things, a nuclear assault on... Read More »	The New York Times reviews West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary In the weeks after Sept. 11, when the television screens were filled with the certainties and chiseled uncertainties of the talking heads —... Read More »
"O" Magazine reviews And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You by Kathi Kamen Goldmark If your secret desire is to live in a world where bad men are punished and your girlfriends rule and the best cure for a broken heart is to throw back your head... Read More »	New York Times Book Review reviews You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett WHATEVER troubles me about the nine stories in Adam Haslett's first collection, or about the sensibility of their youngish author (he's in his early 30's), has... Read More »
Booklist reviews THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE by Julie Buxbaum In the space of a few weeks, Emily Haxby breaks up with her longtime boyfriend, leaves her job at a corporate law firm, and learns that her beloved grandfather... Read More »	NewPages.com reviews Brown Glass Windows by devorah major Brown Glass Windows by Devorah Major is one of those novels told partly through the confines of the conventional prose story form and... Read More »
literarysunday.org reviews Brown Glass Windows by devorah major I've been waiting a long time for this and it is a privilege and a pleasure to state that Devorah Major's new novel Brown Glass Window is out... Read More »	Metroactive.com reviews An Open Weave by devorah major If time were liquid, An Open Weave would be decades of warm sweet milk, deliciously consumed in one day. San Francisco poet devorah major's first novel is... Read More »
TimeOut (New York) reviews Koolaids: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine By the time Eleanor Roosevelt rips into Tom Cruise and tells him to just shut up, it’s clear that Koolaids: The Art of War is not exactly a linear novel. In... Read More »	Sunday Herald reviews Koolaids: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine A book that refuses despair by the sheer exuberance and inventiveness of its style. The topics may seem gloomy---the impact of the Aids epidemic and the... Read More »

Curious Readers reviews To Tempt the Wolf by Terry Spear I enjoyed the werewolf lore that Spear has created for her books. I know that this is not the only one, although I haven't read the others. Her werewolves live in... Read More »	EW, PW, The Independent reviews A Richer Dust by amy l. boaz “Based loosely on D.H. Lawrence's 1924 pilgrimage to Taos, N.M., where he hoped to create an artists' utopia, Amy Boaz's diamond-cut debut, A Richer Dust, follows... Read More »
Ready Reader Reviews reviews The Witch's Beast by Kiki Howell I loved Kiki Howell's sexy, erotic version of Beauty and the Beast, The Witch's Beast. Ms. Howell hooked me right away with the witch, Seraphina, flying into a... Read More »	You Gotta Read Reviews reviews The Witch's Beast by Kiki Howell In the spirit of Gregory Macguire's Wicked, The Witch's Beast tells an old familiar tale from a different angle with a sexy spin. I thoroughly enjoyed this book... Read More »
The Girls From Ames New York Times reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow In the quest for better health, many people turn to doctors, self-help books or herbal supplements. But they overlook a powerful weapon that could help them fight... Read More »	The Girls From Ames New York Times (blog) reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow In a new book, “The Girls From Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship” (Gotham), author Jeffrey Zaslow explores the powerful friendships of 11 girls... Read More »
The Girls From Ames Christian Science Monitor reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow Jeffrey Zaslow knew he had stumbled on a hot topic when he wrote a column about women’s friendships for The Wall Street Journal. Almost immediately, hundreds of e-... Read More »	The Girls From Ames Minneapolis Star Tribune reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow When the movie "10" came out, a group of high school girlfriends in Ames, Iowa, decided that Karen, the one with the longest hair, should be transformed into Bo... Read More »
The Girls From Ames AMES TRIBUNE ARTICLE reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow “The Girls from Ames” is a book about friendship, a theme to which we can all relate. What makes this story more relevant is that it began in our own community,... Read More »	The Girls From Ames Ladies' Home Journal reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow Are you heading to a reunion this summer? Thanks to Facebook, Evite and other online tools, perhaps you know who's attending, what they look like, and what they've... Read More »