Jeff Daugherty

Thrillers

Barak’s “Payback” Delivers an Innovative Meta-Thriller

Every year, author Ronald S. Barak attends the ThrillerFest conference in New York, where the world’s most famous thriller and mystery authors mingle with emerging writers to network, learn and spark the creative juices. Barak apparently looked around and didn’t have to step out of the conference hotel for his…

Jeff DaughertyMarch 30, 2020

Better Self Nonfiction

One Man’s Spiritual Rebirth in “Every Grain of Sand”

David P. Wichman is an expert when it comes to surviving. Time and time again he picked the safer of two options — leaving his abusive stepfather for foster care; stealing a car to get out of town and escape his circumstances; hustling on the streets to make a little…

Jeff DaughertyMarch 11, 2020

Thrillers

“You Are Not Alone:” Another Gripping Thriller from Bestselling Duo

A few ingredients go into a good thriller. You need at least one point of view character, preferably more, and one or more of those has to be an unreliable source of information. There’s got to be a scheme and a death and a girl/woman/wife on a train or in…

Jeff DaughertyFebruary 25, 2020

Nonfiction

Lessons on “The Art of Resistance” from a Legendary Freedom Fighter

When he was fifteen years old, Justus Rosenberg snuck into a Wagner music festival. The next year, as Nazis descended upon his town of Danzig, he stole away again to Paris. When the Nazis took that city from him as well, Justus went underground, and so began a daring chapter…

Jeff DaughertyJanuary 29, 2020

Fiction

Celebrating Edith Wharton’s Birthday with 6 Book Recs

In case you didn’t know, today’s Edith Wharton’s birthday. Were she still alive, she’d be 158, probably enjoying a nice cup of tea in Paris. Maybe she’d have a Kindle in front of her and would be interested in checking out some novels inspired by her legendary body of work.…

Jeff DaughertyJanuary 24, 2020

Fiction

Extraordinary Power and Vulnerability in “The Better Angels”

With age comes wisdom, and, in a few rare instances, the ability to time travel. In The Better Angels (All Things That Matter Press) by Bette Bono, Aggie wonders if her life as she knows it is drawing to a close, reeling from the loss of her late husband, adjusting…

Jeff DaughertyJanuary 22, 2020

Thrillers

Bradley Harper’s Margaret Harkness is Back in “Queen’s Gambit”

Victorian scholars rejoice because Bradley Harper is back with the sequel to his literary mystery odyssey A Knife in the Fog (our review here). While that novel took place in 1888 and followed Arthur Conan Doyle and Margaret Harkness pursuing Jack the Ripper, Queen’s Gambit (Seventh Street Books) hands the…

Jeff DaughertyJanuary 10, 2020

Nonfiction

Master of Subversive Fiction Chuck Palahniuk Asks Readers to “Consider This”

To paraphrase Chuck Palahniuk, “People are always asking, did I know about Chuck Palahniuk.” Everyone does at this stage, at the very least from Fight Club, but for edgy kids who want to write edgy stories and didn’t grow up with Burroughs and Bukowski, this guy has always been the…

Jeff DaughertyJanuary 8, 2020

Thrillers

BookTrib’s Top 10 Thrillers of 2019

2019's crop of thrillers had us on the edge of our seats on a few dozen occasions, but for the sake of brevity and to save some room on your TBR for 2020's upcoming attractions, we've compiled the top ten. Whether reading more mysteries is one of your New Year's…

Jeff DaughertyDecember 23, 2019

Fiction

“The Captain and the Glory:” An Absurdist Spoof of Our Absurd Reality

The Captain and the Glory (Knopf) is a quick Dave Eggers, a slim stopgap of a novel between The Parade (which we reviewed here) and whatever’s up next. While that novel is a sparse farce populated by short, punchy sentences and minimal set pieces, this one is a direct and…

Jeff DaughertyDecember 20, 2019

Business Nonfiction

“The Bezos Letters” Offer a Road Map to Startup Success

The new plan might be worse for Amazon in the short term, with billions on the line in opportunity cost, but it’s a PR victory for the company as well as for politicians who have railed against Amazon and its billionaire CEO Jeff Bezos. As for Bezos himself, he understands…

Jeff DaughertyDecember 9, 2019

Fiction

This Halloween, Explore Horror Fiction’s Freaky Forebears in “Monster She Wrote”

We all have our Halloween traditions, from bobbing for apples Snoopy-style to trick-or-treating (or, for most of us, rushing home to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters before dusk). Maybe you throw on Hocus Pocus or The Evil Dead and have a pumpkin latte or pumpkin beer as the evening draws…

Jeff DaughertyOctober 31, 2019

Children's Books

“Trouble on All Sides” – an Old West Story for the Youngsters

It’s a good time to be a fan of westerns. It’s a genre that comes and goes, but between 2018 and 2019 we’ve had cowboy stories across all media, from films such as The Ballad of Buster Scruggs to video games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and even the hit…

Jeff DaughertyOctober 11, 2019

Nonfiction Save the World

“Sorted” Author Jackson Bird Talks Gender, Waffles & Fandom

Jackson Bird is a trans activist, YouTube star and waffle artisan. A fixture in the Harry Potter fan community, he’s a proud Gryffindor. In his memoir Sorted (Tiller Press), he tells the story of how he came to understand and accept his gender, and the journey that took him from…

Jeff DaughertySeptember 24, 2019

Nonfiction

Edward Snowden’s Not Afraid of His “Permanent Record”

Edward Snowden may run into some trouble getting paid for his memoir Permanent Record (Metropolitan Books), but he was never all that concerned with money. Did he talk his way into a $62k a year contractor job at the age of 22? Yup. Did he take a pay cut to…

Jeff DaughertySeptember 17, 2019

Audiobooks Fiction Thrillers Young Adult

“His Hideous Heart” Updates Edgar Allan Poe for Gen Z

Edgar Allan Poe’s body of work, updated and contextualized for a YA audience, isn’t as much of a stretch as you might think. YA fiction, much like the adolescence it depicts, is messy and gruesome and oftentimes a downright horror show. His Hideous Heart (Macmillan Audio) offers thirteen macabre tales…

Jeff DaughertySeptember 10, 2019

Jeff Daugherty

Barak’s “Payback” Delivers an Innovative Meta-Thriller

One Man’s Spiritual Rebirth in “Every Grain of Sand”

“You Are Not Alone:” Another Gripping Thriller from Bestselling Duo

Lessons on “The Art of Resistance” from a Legendary Freedom Fighter

Celebrating Edith Wharton’s Birthday with 6 Book Recs

Extraordinary Power and Vulnerability in “The Better Angels”

Bradley Harper’s Margaret Harkness is Back in “Queen’s Gambit”

Master of Subversive Fiction Chuck Palahniuk Asks Readers to “Consider This”

BookTrib’s Top 10 Thrillers of 2019

“The Captain and the Glory:” An Absurdist Spoof of Our Absurd Reality

“The Bezos Letters” Offer a Road Map to Startup Success

This Halloween, Explore Horror Fiction’s Freaky Forebears in “Monster She Wrote”

“Trouble on All Sides” – an Old West Story for the Youngsters

“Sorted” Author Jackson Bird Talks Gender, Waffles & Fandom

Edward Snowden’s Not Afraid of His “Permanent Record”

“His Hideous Heart” Updates Edgar Allan Poe for Gen Z

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