New Books and Old Books Together

Using the word *new* is not a clever way to describe anything. Someone could probably put that last statement in better terms. Like these authors:

Joshua Ferris, who wrote a real lasting short story I mentioned in my 10 year fiction roundup, has lead me to his National Book Award Finalist debut Then We Came to the End.


Cecily Parks is making writing interesting again. This is just impeccable poetry and prose and makes you thankful that a writer is willing to give that much.

Truman Capote wrote some of the finest sentences in English. And, although the book Breakfast at Tiffany's is a Papervitamins required reading, the movie is not. Capote is a musician in the English language which is why attention is being finally paid to the unpublished-but-now-published novel Capote wrote when he was 19 called Summer Crossing.