Coming this Fall! Add this to the new Elmore Leonard bio due out next month and I think you’ve got a pretty spectacular one-two combination of literary biographies over the next 3 months or so!

Behold, the magisterial splendor of the Flanagan Family Christmas Tree circa 2024

“Little full. Lots of sap.”

To all who celebrate!!

Re-reading — and if you haven’t yet, definitely check this classic noir out!

One of the most beautiful, bleak, and powerful novels you’ll ever read. Will be thinking about this book for a long, long time.

Gift cards… the gift that gives the whooole year long

“The thing is you keep existing whether you have a plan to do so or not, until you don’t exist, and then your plans are meaningless.” ~ Rachel Kushner, THE MARS ROOM

“If I knew at the beginning how the book was going to end, I would probably never finish. I knew that Legs Diamond was going to die at the end of the book, so I killed him on page one.” ~ William Kennedy