Thomas Grasso

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Coming of age in an era of divorce

Issue: April, 2003
David Amsden's debut novel is an absorbing and often funny fictional account that at times borrows liberally from the author's own experience. Read more »
Secrets of an Italian village

Issue: February, 2003
It is not by chance that author NiccolËœ Ammaniti sets his third novel, a riveting tale of a boy's coming of age, in the ironically named Acqua Traverse (literally translated as "water crossings"), f Read more »
Words with the power to kill

Issue: October, 2002
Perhaps best known for his 1996 novel Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk deftly writes about the bleak side of life using a poison pen filled with dark humor. Read more »