Spotlight On – I AM NOT SIDNEY POITIER

Spotlight Small Press chooses a small press publisher, invites bloggers to choose a book from that publisher’s catalog and puts up a schedule of when the reviews will be posted.  This month the spotlight is on Graywolf Press.  Based out of Minnesota and distributed by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Graywolf is a nonprofit that publishes “novels, short stories, memoirs, essays, as well as poetry”.  I … Continue reading Spotlight On – I AM NOT SIDNEY POITIER

Hmmm….Why do I own this? – Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

I don’t know that much about Kingsley Amis, other than what was in a 2007 article in the New York Review of Books (NYRB Volume 54, Number 9 · May 31, 2007), most of which I have forgotten.  But I own an old, battered copy of Lucky Jim which I apparently paid 90 cents for and never read.  The cover states:  “No one has been … Continue reading Hmmm….Why do I own this? – Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis