Sublime

Frank Donovan, a lifetime close friend and a lawyer from Detroit. He was known among his friends and clients as a brilliant legal analyst with a nonaggressive temperament. No litigator. When we were both twenty, I remember him saying: "When there's a fight, I pick up my hat and go home." He had a large head, somewhat out of proportion to his medium

undaunted. But at his layover in Paris he meets his match: a surprise

Thelonious Monk playing “Honeysuckle Rose”.

In the first pew, Beamer and Jenny couldn’t move. They had watched all this, as the understanding of what had really gone wrong in their lives revealed itself to them, which was that the tide pool you’re born into is only manageable if someone gives you swimming lessons. Or, put more simply, in order to be a normal person, you had to at least see

He exited the workroom, troubled, but not unduly, by a pang of sympathy for Kavalier & Clay. Love saw how it was. These boys had come up with this Escapist character and then, in exchange for some token payment and the opportunity of seeing their names in print, signed away all the rights to Anapol and company. Now Anapol and company were

But in the world of satisfying stories—her preferred domain—both of Olivia’s parents are so much less than they should have been.

Jack Isidore is a ‘crap artist’ who lives with his sister, Fay, and her husband, Charley Hume, in Seville, California in the late 1950s. He collects worthless objects and is prone to unusual beliefs such as the existence of telepathy, flying saucers and the idea that the world will end on 23 April 1959. However, the main narrative concerns the