The Changeling: A Novel (Paperback)

By Victor LaValle

$18.00

Fairy tale writing of a high, brilliantly imagined order is at work here in Victor Lavalle's newest (summer 2017, this is) novel. At the outset, seeming to be a conventional enough story of a New York City book-loving freelance book dealer who falls in love, marries, and, with his wife, sets out to live life, including having a child. All of that happens-  this reads at times like a primer for new parenthood, all the routines, how life seems unbelievably altered from the time before child. And then things start to happen. All manner of things, online and off, in a New York City we might know, and in a New York City that we might not. How enchanted is all of this? You won't be able to put this down until you reach the end.  Victor Lavalle does it here.

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography (Paperback)

By Eric Idle

$17.00

As a teen I was a huge fan of Monty Python. I had a poster of the group on my bedroom wall and spent many hours fantasizing about my life as Mrs. Monty Python. But I digress. Eric Idle's autobiography is absolutely sublime. Apparently he knew (or worked with) EVERYONE - George Harrison, David Bowie, Robin Williams, the entire cast of Monty Python, and the Queen (of England, not the band). I laughed. I cried. No, honestly. This book is spectacular. Eric Idle is a true gem.