
Novel: Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet
Lydia Millet is nothing if not versatile, and Dinosaurs (2022) shows her in my favorite mode: a contemporary setting,…
December 26, 2022Lydia Millet is nothing if not versatile, and Dinosaurs (2022) shows her in my favorite mode: a contemporary setting,…
December 26, 2022I read Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel (2020) so quickly I had to force myself to slow…
September 12, 2020Lydia Millet has firmly ensconced herself in my highest echelon of favorite writers, and A Children’s Bible (2020) —…
August 29, 2020Regular visitors to this site may be familiar with my fondness for the writing of Lydia Millet, a Pulitzer-nominated…
March 2, 2020Lydia Millet’s debut novel, Omnivores (1996), came out quite some time ago, but I’m glad I’m reading it now;…
February 14, 2019Lydia Millet is so entrenched in the ranks of my favorite authors that I’m a little surprised it’s taken…
July 27, 2017It’s tempting to say Lydia Millet’s done it again with her novel Sweet Lamb of Heaven (2016), but that…
May 30, 2016For a while now I’ve been enjoying the way Lydia Millet mixes clever satire, environmental themes, sociopolitical commentary about…
December 23, 2014I wouldn’t classify Lydia Millet’s wonderful adult novels as full-bore speculative fiction, but they do edge into that territory…
July 1, 2014Insightful, witty, and moving, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013) by Karen Joy Fowler is a beautifully written…
October 21, 2013Lydia Millet’s Love in Infant Monkeys (2009) is an interesting project, a themed collection of ten short stories, each…
September 9, 2013Magnificence (2012) by Lydia Millet is the funny, moving, and insightful conclusion to the trilogy begun with How the…
March 29, 2013Man, can Lydia Millet ever write. Ghost Lights (2011) is the sequel to her brilliant novel How the Dead…
June 30, 2012If you had told me three years ago that I would have gotten this blog to 500 posts, I…
January 28, 2012If you even remotely have an environmentalist bone in your body, believe me: moving to Los Angeles will fully…
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