I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good.

The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast of delightfully quirky characters, and a math lesson or two; all together, a winning equation! When Rojstaczer writes about mathematics, you'd think he was writing about poetry.

Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?

Fobbit is fast, razor sharp, and seven kinds of hilarious. Thank you, Mr. Abrams, for the much needed salve--it feels good to finally laugh about Iraq. Fobbit deserves a place alongside Slaughterhouse Five and Catch-22 as one of our great comic novels about the absurdity of war.

I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.

I love being a struggling artist; it makes me feel very alive.

I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good.