by vjbooks | Feb 26, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Feb. 23) After exploring the lives of cereal king Kellogg (The Road to Wellville) and sex researcher Kinsey (The Inner Circle), Boyle turns his attention to Frankly Lloyd Wright, whose story is told through the experiences of the four women...
by vjbooks | Feb 24, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Today we are promoting nearly a dozen titles that for some reason got overlooked . . . either we missed giving them the attention they deserved, or perhaps, you didn’t see the newsletter. We thought we’d give them another chance, and we are cutting the...
by vjbooks | Feb 17, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(boston.com, Feb. 6, Geoff Edgers) It’s no surprise that T. Coraghessan Boyle admired the late John Updike. Like the “Rabbit” writer, Boyle is productive, with 11 novels and eight short story collections to his credit. His 12th novel, “The...
by vjbooks | Feb 7, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
A dazzling novel of Frank Lloyd Wright, told from the point of view of the women in his life Having brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellville and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in The Inner Circle, T.C. Boyle now turns his...
by vjbooks | Feb 5, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(buffalonews.com, Jan. 18, Mark Schechner) Literature loves monsters. Where would “Beowulf” be without Grendel? “Paradise Lost” without Satan? Shakespeare without Iago, Macbeth or Richard III? Where would the novels of Philip Roth or Saul Bellow be without the...
by vjbooks | Dec 19, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Nov. 17) The genius of Frank Lloyd Wright was both magnetic and cruel, as evidence by the succession of failed marriages and hot-blooded affairs depected in this biographic reimagining that drills into Wright mythology and the dark shadows...
