http://btwof-tle.com book reviews and literary news Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:17:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bonnie Jo Campbell's American Salvage includes the best girl-getting-her-own-back (after sexual abuse) story I've read since, oh, Bastard Out of Carolina. It's a great collection. I picked it up because of its references to Kalamazoo, Plainwell, Comstock, and other small towns of my youth, references that, in another mood, would have ... http://btwof-tle.com/2010/01/09/american-salvage/ Coventry by Helen Humphreys Norton, March 2009, $23.95 cloth, 177 pages    Sweet, tender, short and not a word awry. And one of the best anti-war novels I’ve ever read. Just what we need, right now, as we’re settling into to Obama’s “next 100 days,” with none of the wars ended and another one emerging ... http://btwof-tle.com/2009/06/07/coventry/ Wild Dogs is the ultimate stealth (lesbian) novel. If introducing this novel to a wider lesbian readership was the only thing I accomplished in two and a half years of publishing this rag, it would be worth it. Let’s start with the PR — while I sympathize with the publicists’ dilemma ... http://btwof-tle.com/2008/03/19/tles-novel-of-the-year-2005/