April 4, 2014 “Blood Will Out” by Walter Kirn Reviewed by Mark LindquistSpecial to The Seattle Times “I was in the mood for an adventure…. I was a writer, even more importantly a writer between books, and I had a hunch I was going to meet a character.” Thus Walter Read more…
March 29, 2015 “Crow Fair and Other Stories” by Thomas McGuane Reviewed by Mark LindquistSpecial to The Seattle Times By outliving Raymond Carver, Thomas McGuane became one of our best living American short-story writers. Now, Captain Berserko, as McGuane was known in the 1970s, just has to outlive Richard Ford Read more…
Entertainment & the Arts, Sunday, February 28, 1999 “South of the Border, West of the Sun” by Haruki Murakami Reviewed by Mark Lindquist Special To The Seattle Times This is a Japanese novel that feels as American as the movie “Casablanca,” which it brings to mind in both tone and plot. Read more…
Arts & Entertainment: Sunday, June 10, 2001 “Glue” by Irvine Welsh Reviewed by Mark Lindquist Special to The Seattle Times Irvine Welsh is best known to the mainstream as the man who wrote the novel that the movie “Trainspotting” was based on. In the “rave” culture, he is revered as Read more…
Arts & Entertainment: August 16, 2001 “Heavier Than Heaven” by Charles Cross Reviewed by Mark Lindquist Special to The Seattle Times Rock biographies became a publishing phenomenon after “No One Here Gets Out Alive,” the Jim Morrison biography, became a New York Times best seller in 1980. For those of Read more…
July 28, 2001 “How to Be Good,” by Nick Hornby Reviewed by Mark Lindquist Special to the Hartford Courant Fans of Nick Hornby’s first novel, the decidedly hip and male “High Fidelity,” initially may be perplexed as to why Hornby is now writing about humdrum grown-ups from a female point Read more…