Author: Special to the MLN

“Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West” by Bryce Andrews c.2014, Atria Books $25.00 / $28.99 Canada 256 pages   A place for everything, and everything in its place. You’ve always believed that keeping your...

“The Thicket” by Joe R. Lansdale c.2013, Mulholland Books $26.00 / $29.00 Canada 352 pages You know who your friends are. They’re the ones who keep your secrets, or your car keys when you need them to. They’ll loan you five...

“A Reader’s Book of Days” by Tom Nissley c.2013, W.W. Norton $24.95 / $26.50 Canada 448 pages Today is a good day to curl up with a book. And that may be all you’ll do on this day, or today may be monumental in ways you’ll never...