Blogs in January 1970

The Bean Trees 1st January 1970

Taylor Greer moves from her home state of Kentucky in the hope of avoiding the fate of her contemporaries. As soon as she can, she buys a car and en route “out of Kentucky” she is handed a baby...

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Dark Harbour 1st January 1970

Scott Finn worked his way out of Boston’s toughest neighbourhood to become a rising star in the city’s most elite law firm. When the body of Natalie Caldwell, one of his closest colleagues, and former lover, is found floating...

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Orange County Noir 1st January 1970

These noir stories take readers on a hard-boiled tour behind the Orange curtain where a reclusive rock star has lived way too long in his own head, a crooked judge uses the court for illicit means, a cab driver...

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Harvard Square 1st January 1970

Andre Aciman has been hailed as “the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century” (New York magazine), a “brilliant chronicler of the disconnect…between who we are and who we wish we might have been” (Wall Street Journal),...

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Vodka-Flavored Tears 1st January 1970

Vodka-Flavored Tears is a memoir told through twenty-six stories about growing up on the South Side of Chicago and trying to navigate through the stormy waters of childhood, adolescence, and the author’s early twenties. It’s a book about taking...

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