Posts tagged Actors
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk – Review
Oct 28th
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
Palahniuk’s audacious ninth novel tells the story of Cassie Wright, an aging porn queen who intends to put an exclamation point on her career by having sex with 600 men in one day on film. The story begins with Mr. 600—the pornosaur who introduced Cassie to the business—as he describes the other More >
Home by Marilynne Robinson – Review
Sep 27th
Home: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
Home occupies the same time-frame as Gilead; its central drama – the return of the prodigal Jack to his father’s house – is identical; the small events of the narrative – neighbourly visits, church attendance, small excursions into the countryside around Gilead, the house and garden tended, the ailing person More >
The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin – Review
Sep 14th
The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin
The movies have provided escapism for so long that we tend to forget that the actors onscreen are themselves often trying to escape. For the orphaned Lilly Nelly Aphrodite, the heroine of Beatrice Colin’s new novel, “The Glimmer Palace, †“ the only reality she could grasp was the reality More >


