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20 Great Books to Read Over the Holidays 2025

By Abram Brown · Dec 26, 2025 9:04am PST

“Suspense is an artform,” said Bruce Holsinger, the author of “Culpability,” a tense family drama about the ramifications of a horrific car accident. Oh, yes, I should add: The mini-van was driving itself. “I think a lot about suspense—at the level of the chapter, the sentence, the sequence of chapters,” said Holsinger, an author of four... “Suspense is an artform,” said Bruce Holsinger, the author of “Culpability,” a tense family drama...

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25 Great Books for Summer 2024

By Abram Brown · May 23, 2024 8:00am PDT · 2 comments

During a pivotal scene of “Very Bad Company,” a new satirical novel involving a tech billionaire, a dead body and many bruised egos, a startup’s executives dine at Carbone in Miami, where they receive important news calligraphed inside folded origami animals that cost $5,000 each. I half-expected to find one waiting for me as I... During a pivotal scene of “Very Bad Company,” a new satirical novel involving a tech...