stewart o’nan – Cannonball Read 17

…he wonders, nearly seriously, if he should steal the marlin.

Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan

August 16, 2023 by Leedock Leave a Comment

CBR15 BINGO (Edibles square: If you consider Red Lobster edible, I guess? Set in a restaurant.) Manny is the manager of a Red Lobster that’s being downsized. At the last lunch and dinner service, he’s convinced a few of his staff members to come in and work even though an impending snowstorm will most likely scare customers away. Whether begrudgingly, out of loyalty, or needing that last paycheck, the employees trickle in, including a few whom Manny was not able to secure jobs for at […]

History isn’t something that’s done with, it’s what’s happening right now

September 11, 2018 by Leedock Leave a Comment

CBR10 BINGO: Home, Something, Home. This is about as close to home as I can get. Having lived in Pittsburgh since the mid 1980’s, I probably should have read this native author before but somehow he wasn’t on my radar. He is now. First, I think I need to get into a little history here. In this novel, O’Nan writes about a specific community in Pittsburgh’s east end: East Liberty. During the 1960’s, the Urban Redevelopment Authority hatched a plan to build a pedestrian friendly […]

He walked like no man on earth, I swear he had no name.

June 8, 2017 by scootsa1000 Leave a Comment

As you know by now, I’m a sucker for Uncle Stevie. Anything he writes, I’ll read. Novel, short story, op-ed, tweets, collaborations…I’m there. That’s why I’m a Constant Reader. This isn’t the first collaboration with another author that I’ve read by King. He wrote a few short stories with his son, Joe Hill that were pretty good (In the Tall Grass was legitimately terrifying). His book with Stewart O’Nan, Faithful, is probably my favorite non-fiction book of all time. So, even though I had never […]

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