carolyn kellogg

I knew nothing of Caroline Blackwood before I picked up her new collection, Never Breathe a Word. And wow! What a fantastic writer of short fiction. “Fantastic” as in brutally…

Jennifer Weiner just called me a book critic, and she didn’t mean it in a nice way. Weiner, of course, is the author of a heap of books, including Good…

I met Rebecca Skloot in New York last fall, when after a National Book Critics Circle event I had little business attending, I tagged along with a group of former…

When I first reached Joshua Ferris to talk to him for the Barnes & Noble Review, my call surprised him. “I’m driving!” he said, and before he got pulled over…

Sometimes when navigating a flurry of deadlines, which are totally uninteresting, the work appeas, which is interesting, with any luck. The latest: for Flavorwire, my review of Jaron Lanier’s You…

My review of Alan DeNiro’s Total Oblivion, More or Less appears in today’s LA Times. Here’s how it starts. Macy Palmer would be living the life of a normal Midwestern…

I spent two years in graduate school, getting an MFA in creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh, which I wrapped up last fall. I was older than most of…

Possum Living was published in the late 70s as a sassy guide to anti-consumerist living. Mostly ideology-free — unless you count a cheerful curmudgeonliness as an ideology — the book,…

If you’re trying to keep up with the year in reading at The Millions, then, like me, you’re a little bit overwhelmed. So… many… books! All read in 2009. And…

When Dominick Dunne died in August of this year, he was in the last stages of editing his novel Too Much Money, out this week. What’s interesting about the book…