2023-11-21 12:03
Readers will compare this novel to the books of Jonathan Franzen, and that comparison is right on. When A.M Homes offers a quote for Wolf at the Table, that’s enough for me, because I… Read More
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2023-08-29 13:50
Hearts shoot out of my eyes for this book; in fact, I’m in love with Alice Carrière’s memoir Everything, Nothing, Someone.…
The post Everything, Nothing, Someone: a… Read More
2023-05-25 11:52
“I subscribe to the law of contrary public opinion…if everyone thinks one thing, then I say, bet the other way.” –said Ricky Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross, which was w… Read More
2023-03-23 22:20
The Librarianist
Patrick deWitt
Ecco. July 2023 on sale
It’s hard to imagine the literary world without the novels of Patrick deWitt.…
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2023-03-21 01:44
When a deeply-flawed tell-all biography of the late artist X is released, her widow, CM Lucca, decides to correct the record and write a biography of X that will tell the truth about the mys… Read More
2023-03-08 11:30
I might have read all the good books as a reader and reviewer. I’ve not done the latter since the Three Guys One Book days, and before that I cut my teeth at Ain’t it Cool News a… Read More
2023-02-20 14:29
In the February 13/20 2023 issue of The New Yorker.
An older woman lives in a declining neighborhood in Buenos Aires.…
The post New Yorker: My Sad Dead by Mariana Enriquez first appea… Read More
2023-02-17 12:50
I’ve got a pile of books on my desk and in my e-reader, so let’s take a look at what we’re hoping to get on the site in the near future.…
The post On the Horizon: F… Read More
2023-02-16 15:52
Apple Island is “hardly three hundred feet across a channel from the mainland” on the coast of Maine, is a return to his usual stomping grounds by Paul Harding, the same turf min… Read More
2023-02-13 14:30
Zevin draws a line that extends from the play of children to gameplay as intimacy and community.
The post Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin first appeared on Three Guys O… Read More
2023-02-05 14:25
The Thirty-Nine Steps is a primitive case of the Man on the Run archetype, and an early espionage thriller (Buchan called it a “shocker”).
The post The Thirty-Nine Steps by John… Read More
2023-01-25 12:46
Bart, Teddy, and Cole are the team behind True Triangle Construction, a small-time outfit struggling to get over the hump to real projects.
The post Godspeed by Nickolas Butler first appeare… Read More
2023-01-13 15:01
Fugitives of the Heart is the last of William Gay’s posthumous, stolen novels. You can read the story about that in the introduction by Sonny Brewer, a welcome addition to the lit… Read More
2018-11-14 13:00
I fall in love, often ridiculously. Sometimes, these feelings change as quickly as the Queensland sun turning toes in morning warmth to a red raw burn. Sometimes they don’t. It all dep… Read More
2018-10-16 13:00
Growing up, my single mom could not afford those omnipresent, overpriced classroom book club orders. Offered to elementary school participants every quarter, the books ranged from edu… Read More
2018-10-16 13:00
Growing up, my single mom could not afford those omnipresent, overpriced classroom book club orders. Offered to elementary school participants every quarter, the books ranged from edu… Read More
2018-10-02 13:00
Bel Canto, which means “beautiful singing” in Italian, refers to the art of classical singing in the novel, although it more precisely refers to an early romantic style of opera… Read More
2018-09-25 13:00
John Kaag, in Hiking with Nietzsche, his account of tracing Nietzsche’s legendary sojourns in the Swiss Alps, provides one of the best introductions to Nietzsche’s thought… Read More
2018-09-20 23:55
Beware of Pity is a is an astute New York Review reissue and a kind of “ghost book” from a vanished civilization. The characters seem to be in a shadow play in which they act out… Read More
2018-09-06 01:56
I was very happy to see Audition by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh in the 9/10/18 edition of The New Yorker. Saïd and Three Guys have history. In the winter of 2013, J… Read More
2018-08-14 13:00
The End of Eddy, Edouard Louis’ fiction/creative nonfiction/memoir of growing up working class in Northern France, which he could write only because he was no longer working cla… Read More
2018-08-07 13:00
It happened pretty much by accident. Not that I wasn’t a reader, just that my choice of reading material was mostly comprised of comic books, Mad magazine, and TV Guide. In eigh… Read More
2018-08-06 13:00
In 2011, JC and I had a massive 3-part discussion of Haruki Murakami’s 624-page 1Q84. It was one of the last Three Guys discussions that we did, our signature feature was petering out… Read More
2018-07-24 13:00
Obsession is a loaded word that smacks of some hypocritical voyeurism. It implies a pathology, which implies a wickedness. As if the Met, which is such a reactionary institution anyway, with… Read More
2018-07-03 13:00
The first time I read I shocked everyone, including myself. I had lived in a succession of foster homes until I was five, had never gone to school, in fact spent most of the time in b… Read More
2018-06-27 17:31
Recently, I went to the Adrian Piper show at MoMA. When you are partway through the show you run into the Humming Room. To see the rest of the show, you must pass through the Humming… Read More
2018-06-05 13:00
There There, by Tommy Orange, is one of the must-read novels of the year. You could read instead the third or fourth novel by a writer that you know you already love. But this is a de… Read More
2018-05-01 13:00
I first fell in love with language listening to my mother and grandmother arguing in Yiddish, an evocative but mysterious tongue whose words I felt rather than understood literally, a… Read More
2018-04-24 13:00
Audrey Schulman’s Theory of Bastards from inventive Europa Editions is the third of her novels that I’ve read and, at 412 pages, the most ambitious. It’s America on the ver… Read More
2018-04-03 13:50
Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the Man Booker 4 years ago. His new novel, First Person, which I think is even better, certainly deserves to be in contention f… Read More
2018-03-27 14:50
Cellphones are the new cigarettes. It’s the only way I can figure out the burst of pixels that are barfed out on the Internet from every single person with a cellphone camera. Eventual… Read More
2018-03-27 13:00
Although I have been writing practically my whole life in one capacity or another, I only became interested in writing fiction and creative nonfiction about a decade-and-a-half ago. S… Read More
2018-03-20 13:00
I’m awed by the six years of comprehensive research that went into the composition of The Diamond Setter and equally impressed that Mr. Sakal could sensitize my imagination to the exte… Read More
2018-03-13 13:00
The Sparsholt Affair is an encyclopedia of gay desire. It’s sensitive, lyrical, very English, London-centric, takes plenty of chances and it’s the gay novel that I wish straight… Read More
2018-02-20 07:18
Litbreak Magazine and Three Guys One Book are open for 2018 Spring Submissions. Please consult Litbreak Magazine's Submissions page and About page for details on our polic… Read More
2018-02-06 17:57
If I were a citizen of pre-Christian Rome, then I would be worshipping in Jupiter’s temple. Since Read More
2018-01-23 13:00
20 years ago, Elisha, a resident of the Baghdad district of Bataween, said goodbye to her son Read More
2018-01-16 13:00
I got my first library card in first grade. So my love affair with reading began then Read More
2017-12-12 17:37
It’s the holiday season as I’m writing, and a lot of families are hitting cultural venues that Read More
2017-11-19 17:49
Faith Fox by Jane Gardam is the perfect holiday read, even if you’re a secular person like Read More
2017-11-07 13:00
Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady, an early work, was published in book form in 1881 after Read More
2017-10-30 13:00
This is the third of my readings from the 2017 Man Booker longlist, including the winner, Lincoln Read More
2017-10-23 13:00
‘Strangler Bob’, in the Oct 23rd New Yorker is as perfect and satisfying a short story, a Read More
2017-10-22 10:20
originally published on 11/9/2009 DH: A list recently published in The New York Times by a noted Read More
2017-10-17 16:32
The impact of Mohsin Hamid’s new novel, shortlisted for the Man Booker, depends on the fulcrum of Read More
2017-10-17 13:00
My love of reading began when my uncle read me The Hobbit and The Lord of Read More
2017-10-16 13:00
I had a chance to meet and talk to Emily Culliton this past summer during a busy Read More
2015-11-05 11:40
Dear Friends, Three Guys One Book is closing its doors after 7 1/2 years. The two Jasons Read More
2015-10-21 15:03
Today is the day. Sure, it’s a bit hollow to attach significance to a random day from Read More
2015-09-30 13:10
If you are looking for a novel that makes you feel good about life, the world, and Read More
2015-09-28 11:59
Ann Beattie’s new short story collection is entitled The State We’re In. It’s a collection of loosely Read More
2015-09-22 11:32
Sometimes I find a novel that so successfully melds place, character, and story it is hard to Read More
2015-09-21 11:11
Clay pulled the second drawer of his filing cabinet out as far as it would go and Read More
2015-09-16 11:27
…Reading an old book, I find myself on a train in the 1930’s: A Selection from Rebecca Read More
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