Wending his way through his childhood, parents’ divorce, Little League career, and attempts to get girls, Mulgrew is both amusing and offensive in this Harper Perennial book.
This is Simon & Schuster’s second volume of unreasonably funny personal ads—“lonely hearts” they call them across the pond—culled from the London Review of Books.
The subjects in Taylor’s debut story collection include angels, dysfunctional families, and young men in search of love, religion, and a place in the world.
A Common Pornography
Kevin Sampsell
This collection of vivid prose snapshots from HarperPerennial is not your usual memoir, though it is, according to Samp sell, all true. Much of it concerns girls, sex, and porn, as he dives into a career as a radio operator while trying to find true love—or at least get laid. His [...]
Its topic is not exactly fresh, and it uses a loose definition of “sports film” Raging Bull, for example, is a great film about a boxer, but we wouldn’t call it a sports movie—yet this Running Press book is still a lot of fun.
