Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Christopher Law

Robert Lowell was supremely educated and he was crazy. The letters are a first hand depiction of his own mind. These are not the highly crafted poems on the same subject. All of the them are uncorrected. He crosses out his mistakes (noted in the edition) and writes exactly what he is thinking that second. Lowell records his talks with T.S. Eliot and visits the incarcerated Ezra Pound in St. Elizabeth's... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Christopher Law

Now that the book is out in paperback, it is being placed front and center again. I was very surprised by it when it was first released in 2006, because it is such a dark horse. Women are both victims and protangonists in this nasty and sympathetic story (I was terribly fond of their flaws by the end), set in the aptly named town of Wind Gap. The heroine, Camille Preaker, is the illegitimate daughter of... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Christopher Law

Chess has traditionally been associated with insanity. Grandmaster Wilhelm Steinitz was incarcerated in a Moscow asylum where he played a game over an invisible telephone line with God. God Lost. But nothing about the clinically insane matches the machinations of Chess' politics. Grandmaster Evans' book chronicles the bad behavior of the powerful; from the antics of Bobby Fisher, whom he knew intimate... read more>>>