Ali Salerno

I finished Sarah Waters's Fingersmith, and since then I've been descending on books Godzilla-style, but moving slowly and destructively on without finishing (eating) them. The ones I want to stick with are Song of the Lark, by Willa Cather, and Necessary Lies, by Kerry Neville Bakken. I've stopped first for an impromptu re-read of Lolita. …

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I just finished Disturbances in the Field by Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Part of the year of reading an impossibly high number of books to somehow feel more learn-ed; however, this book should be given time to absorb. It is a little capsule dunked in brain-water that you should leave alone for some minutes. When you …

"What is the field though? It sounds like Bloomingdale’s on a Saturday." Read More »