Newsletter #89

"Is all this too purple, too florid?" C.E. Morgan suddenly, cheekily asks two-thirds of the way through her proudly purple and florid novel. "Do you prefer your tales lean, muscular, and dry?" If you... (Tom)

You might imagine why I picked this year to finally read this classic political portrait, but the further I got into it, the fainter the echoes of Trumpism became. Wallace is a portrait less of a type... (Tom)

We dipped back into an earlier Kids' Book of the Week pick for the first time for our Phinney by Post Kids selection this month, for this one-of-a-kind horizontal picture book, which presents sometime... (Tom)