Featured Book of the Month

Last Looks by Howard Michael Gould; studio lot

Last Looks

By Howard Michael Gould '84

A razor-sharp, exquisitely paced, madly fun debut thriller that gleefully lampoons Hollywood culture and introduces the highly eccentric yet brilliant ex-detective gone rogue: Charlie Waldo.

Waldo, a onetime LAPD superstar, now lives in solitude deep in the woods, pathologically committed to owning no more than one hundred possessions. He has left behind his career and his girlfriend, Lorena, to pay self-imposed penance for an awful misstep on an old murder case. But the old ghosts are about to come roaring back.

 

Future Features

The Value of Herman Melville

Geoffrey Sanborn presents Melville to us neither as a somber purveyor of dark truths nor as an ironist who has outthought us in advance but as a quasi-maternal provider, a writer who wants more than anything else to supply us with the means of enriching our experiences.

Professor Geoffrey Sanborn

The Study of Animal Languages: A Novel

This astonishing first novel tells the story of a married couple—both experts in language and communication—who nevertheless cannot seem to communicate with each other.

Lindsay Stern '13

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