Amazing Hot Springs review in The New York Times Book Review!
"Geoffrey Becker's fantastic Hot Springs works hard to conceal its own scope and ambition, but the book's coyness (not to mention its humor) only heightens the uncanny, moving power of the question at its core: When it comes down to it, how far will people go for love?...Throughout the novel, characters ignore their own better judgments, creating a thrilling psychological drama that unfolds alongside the external events and creates MORE
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Porter Square Books reading with Keith Lee Morris and Steve Almond
Keith Lee Morris will read from his story collection Call It What You Want and Steve Almond will read new and original work at 7:00 pm at Porter Square Books.
Porter Square
25 White Street
Cambridge, MA 02140-1413
(617) 491-2220
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Hot Springs
A NOVEL BY GEOFFREY BECKER
Vibrant, sexy, and quite possibly crazy, Bernice is determined to reclaim the child she gave up for adoption five years ago. MORE >
“Hot Springs is a road trip layered with desire and mistakes and the impossibility of keeping a secret from rising through the years.”
—Ron Carlson, author of The Signal |
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How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself
BY ROBERT PAUL SMITH
ILLUSTRATED BY ELINOR GOULDING SMITH
INTRODUCTION BY PAUL COLLINS
New York Times Best-seller
How to Do Nothing literally tells "how to do nothing with nobody all alone by yourself"— real things, fascinating things, the things that you did when you were a kid, or your parents did when they were kids. MORE >
“Every great book reminds us that we're all alone in the world. At least this one provides us with the means to entertain ourselves while we're here.”
— Lemony Snicket |
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Call It What You Want
A NOVEL BY KEITH LEE MORRIS
In this stunning story collection inhabited by dreams and disappointments, good intentions and small triumphs, Keith Lee Morris chronicles the lives of men lost in the liminal spaces between adolescence and adulthood.
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“Here are thirteen manic, beautiful stories, each centered around working men, dads, and boys, all of them broken or on the edge of breaking. Each bears witness to fragility, confusion, and beauty. Each is quietly brilliant.”
—Anthony Doerr,
author of The Shell Collector |
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Agaat
A NOVEL BY MARLENE VAN NIEKERK
TRANSLATED BY MICHIEL HEYNS
Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique, forty-year relationship between Milla, a sixty-seven-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caretaker, Agaat. With haunting, lyrical prose, Marlene van Niekerk creates a story about love and loyalty.
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“I was immediately mesmerized . . . Its beauty matches its depth and her achievement is as brilliant as it is haunting.”
—Toni Morrison
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Good Night, and Good Luck (Not Stabbing Your Toe)
