![]() ![]() ![]() Ackerley's honesty, intimacy, and ease of style. The novel aches with adolescent first loves. A haunting vision of young friendship shattered by an outrageously cruel world. Burroughs was an early fan, Clicking Beat remains remarkably current and continues to be unique in coming of age literature. So beautiful, brave, and ahead of its time that William S. Set in Arkansas but first published in Amsterdam, Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada (published under the title of Cody in the U.S.) quickly won praise from reviewers and readers across Europe and North America. By turns funny, romantic, erotic, and sad, this evocative novel brilliantly recreates the landscape of late adolescence, when friendships seem eternal and loves reincarnate. ![]()
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![]() ![]() (the previous four are outstanding Native AMerican authors, a group not so far represented in LOA, except minor appearances in anthologies) James Welch (novels, especially Fools Crow) Leslie Marmon Silko (at least Ceremony and some short stories) Louise Erdrich (series of loosely interconnected novels) Lorraine Hansberry (probably not enough work to fill a volume, but perhaps can be combined in some other collection) Ralph Ellison (novels, criticism, essays)Įmily Dickinson (I'm surprised she doesn't already have a volume)Īugust Wilson (series of 10 plays plus a few independent ones) ![]() Peter Matthiessen (novels, stories, natural history, social justice) I thought I'd list some of the authors on my list to see what others think of them, or what other authors they might add: I heartily endorse that view and really enjoy and applaud the inclusiveness of LOA. ![]() ![]() Someplace not too long ago, I read, perhaps in an interview with an LOA person, that the purpose of LOA is not just to enshrine THE CLASSICS (TM), but to include excellent writing of all kinds. For several years I've been keeping a list of authors - I'm not sure how best to characterize it - perhaps a combination of those I'd like to see in LOA, those I expect or anticipate will appear, or those I think deserve one or more volumes. I'm an LOA subscriber who currently has over 190 of the main series volumes (as well as all the American Poetry Project volumes and several of the non-series volumes). ![]() ![]() Normal People is a pas de deux between two Irish teenagers, both star students: Marianne, a loner from an affluent, abusive family, and Connell, a popular jock born to a teenage single mother, who works as a cleaning woman in Marianne’s home. Written in crisp, elegant prose, with an abiding generosity for their characters, these novels signal the arrival of a formidable talent. While her novels traffic in the thorny complexity of how young people relate both online and offline, as well as the dispiriting economic realities mediating the relationships of a post-recession generation, they are also wise beyond their years. At 28, the Irish-born author of two sensational novels, Conversations With Friends and Normal People, has earned seismic praise, including the mantle, “the Salinger for the Snapchat generation.” When Normal People landed this April, it skyrocketed to viral fame with legions of admirers, who have crowned Rooney a prophet of fiction by, for, and about millennials.īut to characterize Rooney solely as a millennial writer is to undervalue her prodigious gifts-namely, the delicious psychological acuity that makes her novels crackle, and her ability to explore the influence of sociopolitical systems on individuals who alternately suffer and thrive under their weight. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you spend any time on the Internet, you may have heard of Sally Rooney. ![]() ![]() ![]() But as soon as she steps inside the lavish home, she's overtaken by the pain of old wounds and the pull of past friendships, setting into motion a dangerous cascade of events that could, at any moment, cost Tina her life. It's a job for the Goondas that finally brings Tina back to the Greyhill estate, giving her the chance for vengeance she's been waiting for. With revenge always on her mind, Tina spends the next four years surviving on the streets alone, working as a master thief for the Goondas, Sangui City's local gang. Greyhill's personal study, she knows exactly who's behind it. So when her mother is found shot to death in Mr. But Tina soon learns that the Greyhill fortune was made from a life of corruption and crime. Her mother quickly found work as a maid for a prominent family, headed by Roland Greyhill, one of the city's most respected business leaders. ![]() After fleeing the Congo as refugees, Tina and her mother arrived in Kenya looking for the chance to build a new life and home. In the shadows of Sangui City, there lives a girl who doesn't exist. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets Gone Girl in this enthralling murder mystery set in Kenya. ![]() |