Ellen Wernecke

Author Archive

  • September 14, 2013
  • April 25, 2013
    Manil Suri’s exuberant images of modern-day India, invoking Hindu gods and probing into religious divisions, provide rich scenery for his apocalyptic new novel, The City Of...
  • April 2, 2013
    A ripped-from-the-headlines custody dispute is wrapped in a lyrical but creepy defense in Amity Gaige’s third novel, based loosely on the Clark Rockefeller kidnapping case. A...
  • March 28, 2013
    In Ron Currie Jr.’s new novel, Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles, a wildly popular novelist is accused of faking his own death to become a tragic success story, and even he...
  • February 6, 2013
    After more than 30 years of publishing in her native Russia, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya caught American eyes with a macabre, delightful collection of “scary fairy tales”...