Orbital
Six astronauts orbit Earth sixteen times in twenty-four hours. Harvey makes you feel every pass.
Fiction
20 books
Mostly novels that do something unexpected with form or voice. Primarily from small presses, often slim, often in translation.
Pond
“In solitude, you don’t need to make an impression on the world, so the world has some opportunity to make an impression on you.”
All Fours
A novel bursting with desire that mostly goes unconsumed; a midlife crisis in a motel room.
The New York Trilogy
Auster at his strangest in three unexpected detective novels.
The First Bad Man
Nobody in their right mind would do the things Cheryl Glickman does, and nobody can write them down like July can.
Prophet Song
Relentless and unforgiving; a whirlwind of a novel about a country on the brink of totalitarianism.
Cheri
An elegant, devastating novella about the march towards a certain death—one that Beard, somehow, makes bearable.
August Blue
A concert pianist who walked off stage in Vienna and spent the rest of the novel trying to figure out who she is.
