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Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.: Tales by Eve Babitz My rating: 4 of 5 stars A NYRB classic, Babitz in her witty...

Having spent hours poring over Zappo's website, I remember the distress and the joy of shoe shopping when I was fourteen or fifteen an...

Any Human Heart by William  Boyd My rating: 5 of 5 stars This fictional journal of the writer Logan Mountstuart kept me enthralled for t...

Dear Fang, With Love by Rufi Thorpe My rating: 4 of 5 stars "Our family had been jumbled by history by war, by falling and rising ...

Bilgewater by Jane Gardam My rating: 4 of 5 stars One of my failings as a writer is that I begin a book with attention to the author...

In the early 1980's, when I was managing a large Doubleday bookshop in a mall in Northern California, Mr. Nelson Doubleday himself paid...

This Too Shall Pass by Milena Busquets My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is a short, languid novel of the narrator's sadness and ennui i...