Rebecca Foster

Nonfiction

Review: The Mad Feast is This Year’s Fun and Frantic Cookbook

Matthew Gavin Frank’s previous book was about the discovery of the giant squid, and he has also written memoirs of working at a marijuana farm and an Italian vineyard. Given that unconventional publishing history and his background—he spent 20 years in the restaurant industry but is also a poet and…

Rebecca FosterNovember 9, 2015

Fiction

Review: The Short Stories that Make Up The Best Small Fictions 2015

The Best Small Fictions 2015 Editor Tara L. Masih Super-short stories—variously named flash fiction, haibun or iStories—have exploded in popularity. Where should newbies start? With Best Small Fictions 2015 (Queen’s Ferry Press, October 6), the inaugural volume of a new series edited by Tara L. Masih. From 105 finalists, guest…

Rebecca FosterSeptember 30, 2015

Fiction

Review: Alexandra Kleeman’s Brilliant Debut “You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine”

Think of Alexandra Kleeman as an heir to Dave Eggers and Douglas Coupland, with a hefty dollop of Margaret Atwood thrown in. Her debut novel, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine (Harper Collins; August 25, 2015), is a full-on postmodern satire bursting with biting commentary on women’s body…

Rebecca FosterAugust 25, 2015

Miscellany

Book Review: Circling the Sun with real-life adventurer Beryl Markham

Beryl Markham Fans of Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife—her delicious first-person novel about Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley Richardson—will be glad to hear that her new work of historical fiction, Circling the Sun (Ballantine Books, July 28th) is just as good, if not better. You might not think you have…

Rebecca FosterJune 7, 2015

Fiction

Not afraid of Virginia Woolf? 3 Novels to celebrate her birthday

How can you celebrate the timeless author’s big day? You can read some of her great works, of course. Or, for something a bit different, you can treat yourself to some novels that feature Woolf as a character. Here are some of our favorites: Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya…

Rebecca FosterJanuary 23, 2015

Fiction

Zelda and Mrs. Hemingway: Literary Wives Take Center Stage

Zelda Fitzgerald died 66 years ago to the day, in 1948. She had been a patient at Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, off and on for nearly a dozen years. On March 10, fire spread through the hospital and burned nine women alive, including Zelda, who was on…

Rebecca FosterMarch 10, 2014

Fiction

Journey into some favorite books with a “bibliomemoir”

I retain only the vaguest impressions of George Eliot’s Middlemarch. I read it as a 19-year-old study abroad student in England, too busy exploring a new country and having my first romance to fully appreciate an 800-page treasure of literature. I certainly missed out on the life-changing experience with Eliot…

Rebecca FosterFebruary 21, 2014

Fiction

I dreamt I went to Manderley again. Or was it Miss Havisham’s house?

The time is ripe for backstories and sequels. We can't get enough of extending a beloved story as far as possible. No, not the latest Hobbit movie, or the long-heralded return of the Star Wars saga in 2015; I’m talking about the perennial draw of literary updates. There are many…

Rebecca FosterJanuary 22, 2014

Rebecca Foster

Review: The Mad Feast is This Year’s Fun and Frantic Cookbook

Review: The Short Stories that Make Up The Best Small Fictions 2015

Review: Alexandra Kleeman’s Brilliant Debut “You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine”

Book Review: Circling the Sun with real-life adventurer Beryl Markham

Not afraid of Virginia Woolf? 3 Novels to celebrate her birthday

Zelda and Mrs. Hemingway: Literary Wives Take Center Stage

Journey into some favorite books with a “bibliomemoir”

I dreamt I went to Manderley again. Or was it Miss Havisham’s house?

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