Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Stan Hynds

I'm out on a limb recommending an unfinished novel but this book is so good I am hoping the limb is strong enough to hold all of us. Larry Brown died of a heart attack in 2004 but in A Miracle of Catfish his superbly rendered characters are very much alive in northern Mississippi. I will not soon forget Cortez Sharp, a gentleman farmer with a couple of awful skeletons in his closet and a burning desire for a ca... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Stan Hynds

Is there a more meticulously defined character in modern fiction than Frank Bascombe? He is now in his mid-50's, selling real estate on the Jersey Shore and dealing with prostate cancer. By his own definition, he has entered the Permanent Period, when life is how it will be until the end. But more life happens to Frank in the three days of this novel (around Thanksgiving of 2000) than most people experience in ... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Bruce Anderson

Like its protagonists The Man and The Boy, Cormac McCarthy's The Road sorts between utter despair and abiding hope as it recounts a journey on foot through a cold ruined landscape where the dead outnumber the living, ash falls from a sunless sky, and starvation awaits those not clever or ruthless enough to find sustenance, however morally repellant. A cautionary tale of a possible future, related in ... read more>>>