http://www.tottenvillereview.com A new review of books focused on debuts, translations, and all works that would otherwise go undetected. It is a collaborative of authors, translators, and reviewers bound by one purpose: to contribute to the dialogue of literature. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:29:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.tottenvillereview.com/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-nathan-englander/ http://www.tottenvillereview.com/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-nathan-englander/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:26:48 +0000 admin http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=3302 Reviewed by Scott Cheshire Nathan Englander’s short stories contain fully realized worlds that celebrate the whole glorious morass of humanity, the ugly and the beautiful, the deadly and the divine, the despairing and the hilarious. ]]> http://www.tottenvillereview.com/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-nathan-englander/feed/ 0 http://www.npr.org/2012/02/13/145921582/3-biting-books-for-those-bitter-on-valentines-day http://www.npr.org/2012/02/13/145921582/3-biting-books-for-those-bitter-on-valentines-day#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:34:12 +0000 admin http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=3291 By Alex Gilvarry For those who find themselves alone this Valentine's Day, here are three books that will cure the worst of those Valentine's Day blues. Ladies Manby Richard Price; Cassandra at the Weddingby Dorothy Baker; Miss Lonelyheartsby Nathanael West.]]> http://www.npr.org/2012/02/13/145921582/3-biting-books-for-those-bitter-on-valentines-day/feed/ 0 http://www.npr.org/2012/02/09/146581514/scrappy-girlchild-forms-a-girl-scout-troop-of-one http://www.npr.org/2012/02/09/146581514/scrappy-girlchild-forms-a-girl-scout-troop-of-one#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:38:59 +0000 admin http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=3286 Reviewed by Maureen Corrigan Author Tupelo Hassman writes with such an eye for rough-and-tough detail, she obviously knows something about kids who have been given the dubious gift of premature autonomy. The narrator of her curious debut novel, Girlchild, is a trailer trash tyke named Rory Dawn Hendrix. ]]> http://www.npr.org/2012/02/09/146581514/scrappy-girlchild-forms-a-girl-scout-troop-of-one/feed/ 0 http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=3266 http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=3266#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:15:51 +0000 admin http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=3270 by Mike Walker A review of the Macedonian poet Nikola Madzirov'sRemnants of Another Age ]]> http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=3266/feed/ 0 http://www.tottenvillereview.com/jessica-keener/ http://www.tottenvillereview.com/jessica-keener/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:18:48 +0000 admin http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=3242 by Scott Cheshire Night Swim, Jessica Keener’s debut novel, is the story of Sarah Kunitz, a sixteen-year-old Jewish girl living with her troubled and fractured family in Boston, circa the 1970s. But this is not your standard coming-of-age novel. ]]> http://www.tottenvillereview.com/jessica-keener/feed/ 0 http://www.tottenvillereview.com/review-the-fallback-plan/ http://www.tottenvillereview.com/review-the-fallback-plan/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:07:16 +0000 admin http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=3248 by Kacy EmmettLeigh Stein’s debut novel envelops all that postgraduates fear: their parents, their future, and themselves. ]]> http://www.tottenvillereview.com/review-the-fallback-plan/feed/ 0 http://www.tottenvillereview.com/review-pricing-beauty/ http://www.tottenvillereview.com/review-pricing-beauty/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:05:40 +0000 admin http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=3245 by Owen Whooley In embodying a unique combination of participant and observer, Ashley Mears leads the reader through the curious world of fashion, and in the process, de-airbrushes the industry. ]]> http://www.tottenvillereview.com/review-pricing-beauty/feed/ 0 http://www.tottenvillereview.com/review-monstress-from-npr-books/ http://www.tottenvillereview.com/review-monstress-from-npr-books/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:17:46 +0000 admin http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=3199 by Lysley Tenorio Tenorio has taken a uniquely Filipino-American perspective, polyglot and glittering with cinema dreams, and used it to make a bold collection of stories of the rejected, the helpless and the lost. "Montress" is the debut of a singular talent. -Alexander Chee]]> http://www.tottenvillereview.com/review-monstress-from-npr-books/feed/ 0 http://www.tottenvillereview.com/actors-write-and-so-can-you/ http://www.tottenvillereview.com/actors-write-and-so-can-you/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:53:11 +0000 admin http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=3127 http://www.tottenvillereview.com/actors-write-and-so-can-you/feed/ 0 http://www.tottenvillereview.com/tottenville-picks-paper-conspiracies/ http://www.tottenvillereview.com/tottenville-picks-paper-conspiracies/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:15:36 +0000 admin http://www.tottenvillereview.com/?p=3006 by Susan Daitch An underworld of intrigue thrives at the center of Susan Daitch's new novel surrounding the Georges Méliès film L'affaire Dreyfus... An engrossing novel for the age of censorship and redaction.]]> http://www.tottenvillereview.com/tottenville-picks-paper-conspiracies/feed/ 1