W.S. Lyon

Content by W.S. Lyon

A feast for foodies

Issue: November 2011
Fact and imagination waltz arm in arm through N.M. Kelby’s genre-bending novel White Truffles in Winter. Read more »
Frazier's third Appalachian odyssey

Issue: October 2011
Mystery hangs like a fog through each turn of Charles Frazier’s dark new novel, Nightwoods. Read more »
Navigating a new world

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A central metaphor lies at the heart of this debut novel: a lioness, against all empirically derived expectation, guarding a young gazelle in the savanna for a period of days as tense as a knife&#3 Read more »
The widow's story

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In this brooding third novel from Sam Savage, narrator Edna is alone in the minute world of her tenement apartment, tethered—or rather, shackled—to reality by her last and only enduring Read more »