Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore

[amazon_image id=”1416558470″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Coyote Blue: A Novel[/amazon_image] This is a comedic novel that plays with the intersection between mythology or religion, depending on your point of view) and consensual reality; between the identities we are born with and those we assume. Sam Hunter is an ace salesman who seems to have everything under […] Read more »

Review of The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende

[amazon_image id=”0553383809″ target=”_blank” size=”Medium” link=”true” container=”” container_class=”” ]The House of the Spirits: A Novel[/amazon_image]The House of the Spirits is a classic, magical realist epic, somewhat in the style of Garcia Marquez. The story follows the Trueba family, living in an unnamed South American country, presumed to be Chile in the years leading up to and […] Read more »

John Irving

Colorful, Complicated Characters Inhabit Worlds By Turns Domestic, Surreal, and Absurd. In other words, realism. In my opinion, often it is only through the particulars of an artist’s vision that we can begin to delve into the irrational motivations, tendencies, and quirks that many of us (and our culture) have but which (at least until […] Read more »