I am honored to be the contributing fiction reviewer for WKAR’s Current State. It is a daily show, playing at 9 AM and 6 PM and my reviews appear bi-weekly. You can learn more about the show and hear previous episodes on their website here.
Below are links to the audio and transcripts of my previous book reviews on WKAR, as well as other book reviews I have done on the site without the flash of radio. They are alphabetized by author.
My Book Reviews
- Attenberg, Jami- Saint Mazie
- Atwood, Margaret- The Heart Goes Last
- Ball, Jesse- A Cure for Suicide
- Bell, Matt- In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods
- Blume, Judy- In the Unlikely Event
- Cameron, W. Bruce- The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man
- Cantor, Jay- Forgiving the Angel
- Daniels, Jim Ray- Eight Mile High
- Doctorow, E.L.- Andrew’s Brain
- Dutton, Elizabeth- Driftwood
- Erdrich, Louise- LaRose
- Faulks, Sebastian- Where My Heart Used to Beat
- Fisher, Carrie- The Princess Diarist
- Flournoy, Angela- The Turner House
- Franzen, Jonathan- Purity
- Gaiman, Neil- The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- Gaiman, Neil- The Sandman Overture
- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel- Love in the Time of Cholera
- Hoffman, Alice- The Marriage of Opposites
- Hooper, Emma- Etta and Otto and Russell and James
- Hunt, Samantha- Mr. Splitfoot
- Irving, John- Avenue of Mysteries
- Jacobson, Howard- Shylock Is My Name
- Jansma, Kristopher- Why We Came to the City
- King, Stephen- Revival
- Lamb, Wally- We Are Water
- Lee, Harper- Go Set a Watchman
- Levithan, David- Another Day
- Lystra, Donald- Something that Feels like Truth
- Maguire, Gregory- Egg & Spoon
- Malerman, Josh- Bird Box
- Mandel, Emily St. John- Station Eleven
- McFawn, Monica- Bright Shards of Someplace Else
- Mills, Marja- The Mockingbird Next Door
- Moore, Christopher- The Serpent of Venice
- Owen, Lauren- The Quick
- Quick, Matthews- The Good Luck of Right Now
- Quindlen, Anna- Miller’s Valley
- Palaia, Marian- The Given World
- Perkins, Stephanie- My True Love Gave to Me
- Prose, Francine- Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
- Riekki, Ron (editor)- The Way North
- Rowling, J.K. (Jack Thorne and John Tiffany)- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
- Rushdie, Salman, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
- Salinger, J.D.- The Catcher in the Rye (Banned Books Week 2015)
- Shelley, Mary- Frankenstein
- Simsion, Graeme- The Rosie Effect
- Smith Nehme, Farran- Missing Reels
- Spielman, Lori Nelson- Sweet Forgiveness
- Stoker, Bram- Dracula
- Strout, Elizabeth- My Name Is Lucy Barton
- Thomas, Matthew- We Are Not Ourselves
- Toltz, Steve- Quicksand
- Twain, Mark- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Banned Books Week 2014)
- Vidal, Gore- Burr
- Vonnegut, Kurt- Novels 1976-1985 (Slapstick, Jailbird, Deadeye Dick, Galapagos)
- Wendig, Chuck- Star Wars Aftermath
- Young-Stone, Michele- Above Us Only Sky
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