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A Dentist Walks into a Bar (To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris)

“A dentist is only half the doctor he claims to be. That he’s also half mortician is the secret he keeps to himself.” -- Dr. Paul O'Rourke, DDS. (from Joshua Ferris' To Rise Again at a Decent Hour) [Read More]

April 20, 2015

Review Mondays: April Preview

Every Monday, Tate Street publishes reviews of our favorite books. Check out what we'll be reading in April. [Read More]

April 6, 2015

Mamma, Can I Break My Piggy Bank? (Agostino by Alberto Moravia, trans. Michael F. Moore)

In Alberto Moravia's stunning, intimate classic, a boy struggles to emerge from childhood. [Read More]

March 30, 2015

Zelda the Great (Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler)

Therese Anne Fowler’s novel is a captivating and lilting view into the life of celebrated sweethearts of the Jazz Age, writers Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald. [Read More]

March 30, 2015

A Strange Object Covered with Fur (Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals by Patricia Lockwood)

Discover the startling weirdness of Patricia Lockwood's Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexual, which rewrites nature poetry as outlandish fantasy. [Read More]

March 23, 2015

How Do You Stand in Relation to the Potato? (The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell)

Padget Powell's hilarious novel (?) asks question after question after question after question... [Read More]

March 23, 2015

To Perceive Is to Suffer (The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison)

Leslie Jamison's extraordinary essay collection combines the personal essay, reportage, cultural criticism, and philosophy to examine human empathy. [Read More]

March 16, 2015

Locks & Radio Waves (All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr)

Anthony Doerr's latest novel captures the experience of World War II in the lives of a blind French girl and an orphaned German soldier. [Read More]

March 16, 2015

Tell Me All the Dirty Words You Know (The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford)

Every great novel sets up expectations early on and then, at some point, subverts them. Jean Stafford's recently reissued novel is no exception. [Read More]

March 9, 2015

Three Reasons to Get in Trouble (Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link)

Kelly Link's new collection of story mash-ups treats genre conventions with wit and care. [Read More]

March 9, 2015