When it came time to compile the possible contenders for the 2024 Biblioracle Book Awards for fiction, I came up with 20 titles, more than one-third of all the new fiction I read this year. This is an unwieldy list […]
Part one of the 2024 fiction Biblioracle Book Awards Read More »
I cannot put my finger on any single point of origin, but my Biblioracle senses have been detecting something of a publishing slump. The objective data say that my senses deceive me, as the Association of American Publishers recently reported
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Today’s subject is autofiction, specifically, the autofiction that comes in the form of Garth Greenwell’s new novel, “Small Rain.” Greenwell is the author of two previous highly acclaimed novels “What Belongs to You” and “Cleanness,” neither of which I’ve read,
I didn’t think I liked autofiction until I read ‘Small Rain’ Read More »
Like any young Chicago Bears fan of the 1970s and early 1980s, my favorite player was Walter Payton. How could it be otherwise? Sweetness was one of the all-time geniuses of the NFL, for years pretty much the only one
Biblioracle on Louis Moore’s ‘The Great Black Hope’ Read More »
