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Showing posts with label grit lit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grit lit. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

THE DEADLY DREAMS PAGE: NO ONE LEFT TO COME LOOKING FOR YOU, chasing dreams goes bad & AFTER THE LIGHTS GO OUT, chasing the bad dreams

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AFTER THE LIGHTS GO OUT JOHN VERCHER Soho Press $26.00 hardcover, available now Rating: 4.5* of five The Publisher Says: A harrowin...
Monday, August 29, 2022

REAL BAD THINGS, a very accurate title for a twisty story

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REAL BAD THINGS KELLY J. FORD Thomas & Mercer $4.99 Kindle edition, available for pre-order; releases Thursday Rating: 4* of five...
Monday, July 12, 2021

GIVE MY LOVE TO THE SAVAGES, stories in the key of Black (fantasy) life

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GIVE MY LOVE TO THE SAVAGES: Stories CHRIS STUCK Amistad Books $25.99 hardcover, available now FINALIST FOR THE PEN/Robert W. Bingham...
Monday, January 18, 2021

THE PALLBEARER, Appalachian grit-lit QUILTBAG criminality

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THE PALLBEARER JORDAN FARMER Skyhorse Publishing $24.99 hardcover, $16.99 ebook editions, available now Rating: 3.5* of five The Pub...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

JOE, the late, great Larry Brown's first masterwork in novel form

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JOE LARRY BROWN Algonquin Books $15.95 paper, available now Now only $1.99 on Kindle , so don't wait. ( non-affiliate Amazon lin...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018

COTTONMOUTHS, a GritLit Lesbian take on "Winter's Bone"

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COTTONMOUTHS KELLY J. FORD Skyhorse Publishing $22.99 hardcover, available now Rating: 4.9* of five The Publisher Says : This was D...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG, ideal book-and-movie book club choice

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HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG ANDRE DUBUS III W.W. Norton $15.95 trade paper, available now Rating: 4.75* of five The Publisher Says : On a...
Friday, October 14, 2016

THE HEAVENLY TABLE, latest grit-lit tale of violent woe from Donald Ray Pollock

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THE HEAVENLY TABLE DONALD RAY POLLOCK Doubleday & Co. ( non-affiliate Amazon link) $13.99 Kindle edition, available now Rating:...
Friday, July 8, 2016

THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME by Donald Ray Pollock is a fine novel about rough people

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THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME Donald Ray Pollock Anchor Books $16.95 trade paperback, available now Rating: 4.8* of five SEPTEMBER 2020 IS H...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

BROWN BOTTLE: A NOVEL by Sheldon Lee Compton, honed like a knife & wielded without mercy

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BROWN BOTTLE: A Novel SHELDON LEE COMPTON Bottom Dog Press $17.00 trade paper, OR $8.00 Kindle , available now Rating: 4.75* of five ...
Monday, June 13, 2016

KNOCKEMSTIFF by Donald Ray Pollock...reposting 5-star 2010 review

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KNOCKEMSTIFF Donald Ray Pollock Anchor Books $16.95 trade paper, $5.99 Kindle edition, available now Rating: 5* of five The Publishe...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

VOLT: Stories...as jolting as the name implies

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VOLT: Stories Alan Heathcock Graywolf Press $15.00 trade paper, available now Rating: 4.5* of five The Publisher Says : A blistering ...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

Book-A-Day #13: A great novel title, HILL WILLIAM

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HILL WILLIAM SCOTT MCCLANAHAN Tyrant Books $15.00 trade paper, available now Rating: 4* of five The Publisher Says : Beginning to rea...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

An excellent summer read: CRAPALACHIA by Scott McClanahan

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CRAPALACHIA: A Biography of Place SCOTT MCCLANAHAN Two Dollar Radio $12.00 trade paper, available now Rating: 4.5* of five The Publi...