Monthly Archives: February 2020

Reading Well: Cecilia Valdés by Cirilo Villaverde

Posted on February 27, 2020 by Daniel (@MKNN)

Hailed as perhaps the first great Cuba novel, Cecilia Valdés was first published in full 1882, when Cirilo Villaverde (then living in exile in New York City) returned to a story he had begun some forty years prior. There is … Continue reading →

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Reading Well: The River by Peter Heller

Posted on February 15, 2020 by Daniel (@MKNN)

Reading Well’s very first entry was Peter Heller‘s The Painter. Four and a half years and many write-ups later, we find Heller’s The River (2019). The novel traces two college friends as they kayak and camp along a river in … Continue reading →

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Reading Well: Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James

Posted on February 2, 2020 by Daniel (@MKNN)

I thoroughly loved Marlon James‘ A Brief History of Seven Killings, and when Black Leopard Red Wolf (2019) began generating next-Game-of-Thrones type buzz, I became quite intrigued. Luckily, the buzz is both justified and not. Or, more accurately, the buzz … Continue reading →

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