Time for the Beach: Two New Novels
By James Zug
Eden
Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
Berkeley, CA: She Writes Press, 2017
A family struggling to overcome devastating secrets while in a beautiful place is the core of Jeanne Blasberg’s debut novel.
Blasberg is most well-known to this...
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes: How to Rethink Your Life
By James Zug
When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn’t the Life You Want
By Mike Lewis
(New York: Henry Holt, 2018)
When we last visited with Mike Lewis with the article “Have Racquet, Will Travel”...
Book Review: Lucky, Anil Nayar’s Story
Lucky: Anil Nayar’s Story—A Portrait of a Legendary Squash Champion
By Jean Nayar
(New York: Five Rivers Press, 2020).
By James Zug
Lucky is the biography of one of the top amateurs of the twentieth century. Anil Nayar...
Book Review: Western Lane
Western Lane
By Chetna Maroo
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2023)
by James Zug
Chetna Maroo’s debut novel—short and tight, at 150-pages it is really a novella—is set in the 1980s in Luton, a town north of London, and...