Elin Hilderbrand’s A Summer Affair, is supposed to be a beach read. You know this because there is an image of two cute pairs of feet kissing in the sand on the book’s cover.
The fact that this layered, well-structured and sometimes thoughtless novel is supposed to be a beach read indicates a complication not only [...]
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A Summer Affair Review: Novel as Cop-Out
Off Season
In the off season, all things gay and wild and full of choleric swirl give way to a hangdog mood. No pink flying discs or overturned sandcastle buckets.
In the off season, there are silences in unexpected pockets. Silences filling the wide open days, broken only by a gull cry, a car door, the once [...]
Tales of May 06: Tampa-rriffiic!
It wasn’t a “vacation.” It wasn’t a “holiday,” as they call it over here.
It was an epic event of travel.
With that in mind, I’ve decided to break up the Tales of May 06 into bits, for easier consumption.
It all began, really, existentially, at the House of Meats. La Casa de la Carne.
Timeline-wise, Tampa, and the [...]