Posts tagged with ‘New York City’
May 5, 2012
GORGEOUS GRAPHIC NOVEL looks at three generations of the Irish-American experience through interlocking tales.
Grade: B PLUS
GONE TO AMERIKAY
Vertigo
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Graphic Novels, Historical Fiction, Ireland, New York City, Social and Cultural Commentary
April 6, 2012
COMPULSIVELY READABLE, STYLISH novel traces fifty years of friendship among well-heeled Manhattan women.
Grade: B PLUS
GOSSIP
William Morrow
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, New York City, Novels, Women's Fiction
January 12, 2012
THE LOST BOYS (and girls) of the 1980s punk and straight-edge scenes take center stage in this elegaic novel.
Grade: SOLID B
TEN THOUSAND SAINTS
Ecco
2011
Tags: New York City, Novels, Solid B Reviews
November 29, 2011
FUNNY, FUNKY, CUTE, and sometimes bittersweet memoir from an “Art Star” of the Lower East Side’s arts heyday.
Grade: SOLID B
ELF GIRL: A MEMOIR
Gallery Books
2011
Tags: Art History, Memoirs, New York City, Non-Fiction, Social History, Solid B Reviews
April 30, 2011
IMPRESSIONISTIC AND MOVING writer’s memoir of her 1960s fascination with male artists, her later self-discovery.
Grade: B PLUS
ART AND MADNESS: A MEMOIR OF LUST WITHOUT REASON
Knopf Doubleday/Nan A. Talese
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Literary History, Memoirs, New York City, Non-Fiction
April 21, 2011
INTIMATE BUT NOT GOSSIPY memoir of a writer’s complex time with her mentor/quasi-mother-in-law, Susan Sontag.
Grade: SOLID B
SEMPRE SUSAN
Atlas & Co.
2011
Tags: Asian-American Writers, Latino and Latina Writers, Literary History, New York City, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Writers of Color
March 25, 2011
THE GREAT AMERICAN Opera Novel is sprawling, sensual, erudite, campy, and not for everyone–just like opera!
Grade: B PLUS
THE METROPOLIS CASE
Crown
2010
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, LGBTQ Interest, Music, New York City, Novels
March 15, 2011
INSIDE LOOK AT the 1939 World’s Fair contrasts its official optimism with corruption, terrorism, world war.
Grade: SOLID B
TWILIGHT AT THE WORLD OF TOMORROW
Ballantine
2010
Tags: History, New York City, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, United States
January 30, 2011
STYLISH, ATMOSPHERIC mystery with a Manhattan setting: compelling, if mildly improbable. Impressive first novel!
Grade: B PLUS
THE DAMAGE DONE
Forge/Tom Doherty Associates
2010
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mystery, New York City, Novels, Suspense
June 7, 2010
ENGAGING, CLEARLY WRITTEN bio is a love letter to activist Jane Jacobs’s fight vs. overdevelopment in NYC. SOLID B
WRESTLING WITH MOSES: HOW JANE JACOBS TOOK ON NEW YORK’S MASTER BUILDER AND TRANSFORMED THE AMERICAN CITY by Anthony Flint
New York: Random House
July 2009
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Biography, New York City, Non-Fiction, Politics, Solid B Reviews, Urban Planning