Published Reviews

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 »
Entertainment Weekly reviews I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead turns out to be one of the most casually insightful rock bios ever." Read More »	The Denver Post reviews I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon "...What makes "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" a sort of classic rock biography are the insights into Zevon's creative process, his esteem for writers... Read More »
New York Times reviews I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon "...“I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead,” a no-holds-barred oral history that captures a lovable but wildly aberrant personality, draws upon a fascinatingly diverse... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon "For those who know them, the brilliant, dark songs of Warren Zevon (1947-2003) inspire nothing short of adoration; for those who don't, this stunning... Read More »
New York Times reviews I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD: THE DIRTY LIFE AND TIMES OF WARREN ZEVON by Crystal Zevon. The Los Angeles '70s rock scene, quite literally in a nutshell: an oral... Read More »	Richmond Times-Dispatch reviews Cries and Whiskers by Clea Simon "With urban edginess, realistic characters, a feisty and sympathetic heroine and a big heart, Simon spins a frightening tale that will have you postponing... 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 Northfield News reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow NORTHFIELD — For much of her life, Northfield resident Kelly Zwagerman has shared a 40-year friendship with 10 other women from her high school. They’ve been there... Read More »
People's Book Prize reviews The Ghosts of Eden by Andrew JH Sharp Magical language. Wonderfully drawn characters. Fascinating narrative that stops you from putting down this book before you've read it from cover to cover. A rich... Read More »	Out -numbered 3 to 1 reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas Irene dos Santos disappeared at age 15. Believed to have drowned while on holiday with her best friend, Lily Martinez, her body was never found. Now, years later,... Read More »
Front page of book reviews Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq by Michael Anthony "From traumatic injuries to anthrax shots, Michael Anthony has captured in intricate detail life in a combat zone operating room. As someone who's done two tours... Read More »	South Florida Sun-Sentinel reviews City of Dragons by Kelli Stanley Unconventional characters provide the backbone of the mystery genre. And Kelli Stanley's riveting new series about 1940s San Francisco private investigator Miranda... Read More »
Harriet Klausner, Genre-Go-Around reviews Seduced by the Wolf by Terry Spear "No one makes werewolves seem real better than romantic urban fantasist Terry Spear continually does with her “Wolf” saga (see Legend of the White Wolf, To Tempt a... Read More »	The Journal of Family Life reviews Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond by Jane Satterfield How do people negotiate their transitions to parenthood? Do they simply step into a role similar to what they have seen in sitcom families, mothers nurturing the... Read More »