Patience
by Daniel Clowes
MADE-UP
"It's okay. I know everything." In talking about a crazy time-travel tale like this one, why not start with the last words spoken, which made me want to turn back to the beginning and start the trip a... (Tom)
The Green and the Black
by Gary Sernovitz
TRUE
I would never have picked this book up if I hadn't read a very funny essay Sernovitz wrote for the New Yorker website recently, where his bio identified him as both a novelist and an oilman. Intrigued... (Tom)
The Lonely Polygamist
by Brady Udall
MADE-UP
Udall takes one of the basic sitcom setups, the good-hearted, incompetent dad, and turns it up—not to 11, but to 28, the number of kids title patriarch Golden Richards has scrambling around the four h... (Tom)
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