It’s tough to write about suicide and not glamorize it or, alternately, vehemently condemn it. Most of the time, suicidal characters have Big Trauma in their lives, and so, to some extent, their desire to end their lives is understandable, at least from a literary point of view. Or on the other side of the coin, suicide is used as a tool to show how selfish a character is, to show the destruction left behind, and the character is vilified. But in A Long Way […]

I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I’m such a procrastinator. Anyway, I have at least a dozen reviews, so maybe by September I’ll put up another one. Me: Hey, can I borrow this? JB: Sure. Me: How was it? JB: I dunno. I never read it. This from the man who reads everything. That should have been my first warning. From Nick Hornby comes what all the fancy newspapers called “a page turner” (Washington Times) and “fearless” (San Francisco Chronicle), but what I call […]