Donovan’s M.I.A.: Big Stories for a Small World, by Sid Lenington, isn’t quite a book of short stories. Three of its four stories might better be called novellas. In the titular “Donovan’s M.I.A.,” which reads like a literary memoir, the author shares a dark family...
MONARCH: Stories is a debut collection of short stories by Emily Jon Tobias that takes you into the dark heart of American lives, mostly those of young women on the run from, and to, a lot of trouble. As the author herself explains in her introduction, she left home...
James Ellroy’s newest novel, The Enchanters, brings us back into the life and mind of Fred Otash, which we have encountered in earlier works like Blood’s a Rover. Otash, for the uninitiated, is a disgraced former LA cop and private investigator who extorts and cons...
