Maroon Weekly

Finding the words to describe a body of work so important and meaningful is not an easy charge…

Who gets more sympathy, the cheater or the cheated?

Most people have probably heard of Jodi Picoult through the recent movie, My Sister’s Keeper…

Incognegro is a graphic novel and noir murder-mystery that travels well beyond any formula or template…

Tess is rugged. The setting is the English countryside, poverty, and milkmaids…

By Sara Muessel

Every now and then a reviewer uses the words “every now and then” to start a review, which is usually followed by a glimmering review of a very artsy, but very bad book. With this book, though, it is completely appropriate. To say that every now and then a story collection comes along [...]

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
“Can YOU pass the acid test?”
By Sara Muessel

Let me preface this review by saying I was not alive in the 60’s, and I never talked to my parents about their experiences, yet through this book, I feel as though I shared in the madness that were the Acid [...]

A 1984 classic, Neuromancer is the brain child of cyberpunk fiction, a science fiction genre noted for its “high tech” coupled with “low life,” according to Wikipedia…

ome might have read this story before and think that it is a little childish, but that is the very reason I love the book…