Accent: an online literary review

Lou_Sytsma

I have several reviews in the inaugural issue of Accent, where I am a member of the charter editorial board. Check it out!

Lou_Sytsma

Very nice - what is on your to be reviewed pile?

BevVincent

Currently:

• I Am Charlotte Simmons (Tom Wolfe)
• Prime (Poppy Z. Brite)
• Transgressions (Ed McBain, editor)

BevVincent

The new issue of Accent is online with a batch of my reviews. I think these are new:



Limits of Enchantment (Graham Joyce)

Double Homicide (Kellermans)

I Am Charlotte Simmons (Tom Wolfe)

Prime (Poppy Z. Brite)

BevVincent

The June issue is now up. My reviews are Inside Out (Nick Mason), The Good Wife (Stewart O'Nan) and All the Flowers are Dying (Lawrence Block). There's also a review of The Road to the Dark Tower.

BevVincent

Interesting reviews, Bev. I'm curious; are you asked to review particular books, or do you review what you read yourself? For example, are you interested in Pink Floyd, or rock band histories yourself?



Great review of ROAD, by the way.



HBJ

BevVincent

So far I've been picking my own books to review. I've been a big Floyd fan since the late 1970s. When I had a signing at Borders a while back, I had a lot of free time on my hands so I picked up Mason's book and browsed it, then ordered a copy for myself. If I wasn't interested in Floyd, I probably wouldn't have read the book. (You'd never catch me reading the official biography of Guns N Roses, for example, if such a thing existed!)



The editor has queried me about reviewing one book so far, but I have enough of my own choosing to submit that it's not an issue.

JReitan47

Is O'Nan's THE GOOD WIFE a recent release?

BevVincent

Fairly recent -- April

JReitan47

I'll have to take a look for it..I love O'Nan and The Good Wife sounds very interesting.

BevVincent

New reviews online:

• The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
• The Seasoning of a Chef by Doug Psaltis with Michael Psaltis

BevVincent

It's been a while, but there's a new batch of reviews up at Accent:

• City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
• Never Let Me Go  by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Cell by Stephen King
• Glass Soup  by Jonathan Carroll
• The Historian  by Elizabeth Kostova
• Fotunate Son  by Walter Mosley