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...This meandering memoir is rife with juicy snapshots of ’70s New York cool at its grittiest and most seductive. But while Smith succeeds in communicating the thrill of social climbing at Max’s Kansas City and CBGB, she doesn’t provide much evidence of Mapplethorpe’s supposed appeal.

AV Club

84%
It is rare that a book is at once so timely and of such high literary quality.

Publishers Weekly

86%
This inward turn doesn’t exclude her fans. You sense she wants to bring us with her as she moves into this next phase of her career: a generous, intimate dialogue with times both before and after her own time in this world.

Globe and Mail

72%
The Alaska of the title is a maddening, fascinating, vivid girl seen through the eyes of Pudge...What sings and soars in this gorgeously told tale is Green’s mastery of language and the sweet, rough edges of Pudge’s voice. Girls will cry and boys will find love, lust, loss and longing in Alaska’s vanilla-and-cigarettes scent.

Kirkus

80%
Mr. Larson has written a dynamic, enveloping book filled with haunting, closely annotated information.

NY Times

74%
Either version is worth a read. Not only is the portrait one of the most enduring images in popular culture, but our relentless lust for good looks at any price is perhaps more relevant today than ever.

Toronto Star

74%
The result is a sprightly, easygoing hybrid of fact, observation, advice and comedy, with Mr. Klinenberg, presumably, supplying the medicine — graphs, charts, statistics and the like — and Mr. Ansari dispensing the spoonfuls of sugar that help it go down.

NY Times

74%
It was Rebecca that made me realize I didn't wish my life were more like a Gothic novel.

NPR

82%
The book is filled with shout-outs to old friends and frequent addresses to the reader...

National Post arts

93%
That one of the world's biggest rock stars writes about it so nakedly makes this memoir important. And that's one reason why this book isn't just for Springsteen's super fans.

NPR

78%
Brownstein is unafraid to reveal her emotional vulnerability, making this one of the smartest and most articulate music memoirs in recent years.

Publishers Weekly

76%
...has proved to be the most lasting element of Burnett's literary legacy. Perhaps that shouldn't surprise us, given how ahead of its time it was.

Guardian

80%
Lepucki's cautious dystopia never quite asks the right questions of us, ultimately to the detriment of the novel.

LA Times

64%
For me, this book was about the real thing! How issues are actually dealt with, relationships formed and family ties strengthened, and not like your usual OMG teenager drama!

Guardian

82%
The story is powerful as much for what is suggested as for what is told. It leaves the reader in a mood of chastened wonder...the weight of the story as a revelation of life and as a work of art becomes apparent. And it is very great.

LA Times

81%
Kingsolver moves into new moral terrain in this powerful, convincing and emotionally resonant novel.

Publishers Weekly

79%
The language is beautiful...And while a good part of the adventure was exciting, I still had trouble getting into the rest of it. I think this will require a reread at some point, but I'm not terribly excited about that prospect and will likely put that off for quite a while.

Sarah Reads Too Much

69%
He takes her to a mushroom town, buys a lot, puts up a store and makes the town sit up and take notice. His success goes to his head -- their life becomes a mockery of her high hopes. And after his death, she goes off with a youth who brings her happiness and tragedy. A poignant story, told with almost rhythmic beauty.

Kirkus

84%
Twenty-four years after a traumatic disappearance tore a Georgia family apart, Slaughter’s scorching stand-alone picks them up and shreds them all over again...Slaughter...is so uncompromising in following her blood trails to the darkest places imaginable that she makes most of her high-wire competition look pallid, formulaic, or just plain fake.

Kirkus

79%
Gordon seems to have emerged from the split more powerful than ever, with a reinvigorated visual-art career, reported legions of potential suitors, a new band (Body/Head) and now this book. Still, the sense of loss is never far from these pages.

LA Times

72%

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