column: Literary Beat
We shed our headphones and grab our bookmarks to read the latest in print.
posted March 2008
Salty and delicious: Chip Kidd's The Learners
March 13 – It isn't the book you judge by the cover—it's the book you read by the cover. Come, my friend, and soak up the pages of Chip Kidd's second novel, The Learners. by John Vining
February 2008
Tremendously lovely adverbs
February 9 – Like the parrots, lovebirds and magpies that flit in and out of its pages, Adverbs, by Daniel Handler, is a work of nimble and elegant prose on the infinite forms that love can take. by Laura Bliss
January 2008
Book review: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
January 10 – A decade after his bestselling and widely acclaimed short story collection Drown, Diaz returns with his first full-length novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. by Taylor Hofmann
