Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “A Sport and a Pastime” by James Salter
A sixties gem you may have missed. By Randy Kraft James Salter is what they call a writer’s writer. He is a master of clarity....
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “Ask Again, Yes” by Mary Beth Keane
I was at first surprised this novel received early praise. The set-up is familiar: Irish immigrant cops in NYC in 1973, a dark time for the...
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Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “The Mars Room” by Rachel Kushner
Rachel Kushner is one of those writers who grab you at once or confound you. Or both. In "The Mars Room," her fourth novel, she grabs you...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “Warlight” by Michael Ondaatje
A modern master tells a melancholy tale of post-WWII Britain. By Randy Kraft Everything we read about war is about the war –...
Randy Kraft’s Top 10 Books for Summer Reading
Timely cultural fiction, short stories, a time-traveler tale and personal sagas round out the best in beach reading with stories that all...
OC Book Blog: “There There” by Tommy Orange
By Randy Kraft Gertrude Stein, in the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, famously wrote of her childhood town of Oakland, there is no...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “The Overstory” by Richard Powers
The world had six million trees, when people showed up. Half remain. Half again more will disappear, in a hundred years. ~ The Overstory,...
OC Book Blog: “Asymmetry” by Lisa Halliday
A unique first novel by another mid-life accomplished writer (like Cherise Wolas’ recently reviewed debut The Resurrection of Joan...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog — Strangers Among Us: Two Novels Explore the Search for Identity
So much has been written in recent years about the search for cultural identity. We are all descendants of “others” whether in distant...
The Ultimate Fashion Experience
A day with blogger Jacey Duprie at Montage Laguna Beach Experience the ultimate day of fashion with blogger and style icon, Jacey Duprie,...
