From the monthly archives: July 2008
By Eliot Asinof (orig. pub. 1955; reissue by Southern Illinois University Press, 1998)
The writer Eliot Asinof is best known for Eight Men Out, a history of the 1919 Black Sox baseball gambling scandal. Those who are unfamiliar with the book might recognize its title because of the popular 1988 John Sayles [...]
Continue Reading →Another reminder: The New Haven Review's Summer Book Group at Labyrinth Books continues tomorrow, July 23, with Mark Oppenheimer leading a discussion of Richard Price's Lush Life, in which Price turns his unflinching eye on the new New York. As before, we bring the discussion; Labyrinth [...]
Continue Reading →By David Evanier (Rager Media, 2007)
We all do it, right? Before we read a book, we look at the blurbs, look at the publishing house, look at the bio, look at the acknowledgments, put it all together, and try to figure out if this writer is somebody. (Isn’t it nice to pigeon-hole a writer [...]
Continue Reading →By Paddy O'Reilly (University of Queensland Press, 2007)
The follow-up to Paddy O’Reilly’s debut novel, The Factory (2005), The End of the World is a collection of the stories that have won her accolades including The Age short story competition and the Zoetrope: [...]
Continue Reading →In deference to Independence Day, the New Haven Review has taken this Monday off. It will also take off the Mondays in August, as we know that nearly everyone — well, everyone in publishing, anyway — goes on vacation; and even if they don't, nobody wants to be inside, hunched over a computer, when they [...]
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