Art in America

Be ready to settle in and watch a master juggler at work. Art In America has storyline after storyline after storyline. As you read, you can feel the storylines starting to cross and converge, until the author manages to pull them all together at a completely satisfying end. I don't think it's possib......more

Very entertaining. Steven Kearney has written thousands of pages of poetry, short stories and some of the longest novels in the history of the form. None of them were published. So, when the small town of Creedemore, CO asks him to write a play for their historical society's extravaganza, he moves f......more

I love Ron McLarty, and I enjoyed this book, but as some other reviewers mentioned, the amount of profanity was, I thought, excessive, and I was getting VERY tired of one particular character (the dead one) to the point that several times I really wanted to just stop listening (I listened to the aud......more

I thoroughly enjoyed McLarty's first book, Memory of Running, and wanted to explore him again. This one, frankly, was not as good, but it is good enough to finish. It is about an East Coast struggling playwrite who has an opportunity to be an artist in residence in a small Colorado town to write a p......more

Wandering yarn that got lost. Had to leave it unfinished.......more