Ellen Akins

Jun 18, 2024 | hastingstribune.com | Rufi Thorpe |Ellen Akins

Margo's got troubles aplenty in "Margo's Got Money Troubles," a plucky, amusing, somewhat dirty, distinctly un-erotic novel by Rufi Thorpe. She's 19. She has a baby whose father, her English professor, makes her sign a nondisclosure agreement. Two of her three roommates flee, leaving her in the lurch. Her father, a drug-addicted professional wrestling celebrity, moves in. She loses her waitressing job after missing too many hours.

Jun 3, 2024 | startribune.com | Ellen Akins |Rufi Thorpe

Margo's got troubles aplenty in "Margo's Got Money Troubles," a plucky, amusing, somewhat dirty, distinctly un-erotic novel by Rufi Thorpe. She's 19. She has a baby whose father, her English professor, makes her sign a nondisclosure agreement. Two of her three roommates flee, leaving her in the lurch. Her father, a drug-addicted professional wrestling celebrity, moves in. She loses her waitressing job after missing too many hours.

May 13, 2024 | rep-am.com | Ellen Akins

Note: Stories of race, slavery and the Civil War, real and invented, won Pulitzer Prizes last week. Here’s a review for the winner in the fiction category. Jayne Anne Phillips is very good at writing awful things. Which might be why what’s most powerful in her “Night Watch” is a rape.

May 4, 2024 | goeasternoregon.com | Ellen Akins

David Gibbins’ “A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks” is also a history of the world in 270 pages, which is why, as you might imagine, the book is jam-packed with information — and why, as Gibbins explains, it is not the history, but a history.

May 2, 2024 | latimes.com | Ellen Akins

Book Review Long Island By Colm TóibínScribner Book Company: 304 pages, $28If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Colm Tóibín is hardly known for “hooks,” but he certainly has one here.