Posts by: April Elisabeth Pierce

Sex & Lies in Vintage Hollywood: Chuck Palahniuk‘s Tell-All

Jan, 2011 | by

Told from the perspective of a surly, intelligent assistant-to-a-star Miss Hazie Coogan, Tell-All is a delicious slap in the face of an archetypal Hollywood of yesteryear. Like his previous novel…

Medium Heat: The Essays of Leonard Michaels

Sep, 2009 | by

Wine enthusiasts and literary critics share a vocabulary on all too many occasions: scintillating, tasteful, nuanced, and so forth. From time to time, though, one comes across an author who…

Less “Je ne sais quoi,” More “Je ne sais pas pourquoi”

May, 2009 | by

“She moved over the surface of life the way figure skaters move. . . she never broke through the ice, she never pierced the surface and descended into those awful…