Finn Schubert

Paul Monette

The Most Glorious Pasteboard

From a review of one of Paul Monette's novels: Every act, every event is cut and re-cut by the author's sparkling prose and bizarre imagination to give us new facets, new depths and new insights. The characters aren't quite real and--this is

The Madonna Secret by Sophie Strand

I've just finished reading Sophie Strand's The Madonna Secret. I love the voice in which the book is written -- where Miriam is looking back on her past, where Miriam can tell us the moments in which she wishes she had understood more or acted differently -- yet

Someone in Some Future Time Will Think of Us

You may forget but Let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us. — Sappho I found this quote today in Paul Monette’s essay collection, Last Watch of the Night, after asking him what I should write about and opening to a random page. He