Steve Clark reviews “The Red Car” by Marcy Dermansky

A car with self healing abilities, love and travel all found in “The Red Car.” Here is another book review, alas a book pan. After seeing the review in the New York Times Book Review of The Red Car by Marcy Dermansky (Liveright Publishing Corp. 24.95) I...

The Passenger – Tough girls exist throughout the pages

A review by Steve E. Clark  For those of you who love tough girls I have another recommendation. The Passenger (Simon & Shuster, $25.99) by Lisa Lutz keeps the pages turning with the story of Tanya, whose real name turns out to be Jo, although she goes through...

Cash for Words: A Brief History of Writing for Money

Money taints everything, why not writing too? Charles Dickens was paid by the word. This was junior high, we were reading A Tale of Two Cities, and this fact, when it was first uttered, raced like a rumor through the classroom, overtaking everything. Suddenly, every...