Jump-cutting back and forth through Americana, from the “shot heard ’round the world” to Lenny Bruce’s extended monologues on the Cuban Missile Crisis, Don DeLillo shines a light on America’s dark impulse to violence in “Underworld.”
No man is an island. Except for possibly Frank Bascombe, Richard Ford’s uniquely American dreamer, drifting absently through an unexamined life in the New Jersey suburbs.
Lila Mae Watson is a black woman trying to move up in a world that keeps trying to push her back down. But she’s not having any of it in Colson Whitehead’s “The Intuitionist”.
War is Hell. But who knew the flames would be stoked by the drunken aspirations – or just the bumbling incompetence of – your fellow soldiers? Welcome to Vietnam.
David James Duncan hits one out of the ballpark with this truly Great American Novel featuring the Chance family’s good-natured struggle with faith, regret, war, love … and baseball.
A nameless protagonist navigates a tragically comic landscape fraught with danger, mystery, and peril in this timeless novel dramatizing the absurdity of race relations in America.
Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom can only be counted on to screw things up. Or just to screw.
James Ellroy re-imagines American history in a highly stylized, ultra-violent, and chillingly detached novel of suspense.
MFA programs help authors hone their craft. They’re also hugely expensive and, for full-time parents, the residency requirements can be impractical. Introducing the “DIY MFA in Creative Writing”.
Never use the phrase “all hell broke loose” – and other tips for aspiring authors.