Adam Salo‘Barbarian Days’ read by a likeminded barbarianI loved this book but it likely isn’t for everyone. Finnegan, an established investigative journalist and New Yorker mainstay gets personal…Mar 1, 2017Mar 1, 2017
Adam SaloImagined lives in an isolated world that truly existsWhat an imaginative and brutal story Johnson has created. Setting his tale in modern day North Korea he has the ability to ground the…Mar 1, 2017Mar 1, 2017
Adam SaloSeeing value in a moral code and questioning our motivations for everythingMan, DFW: I appreciate his contribution to American Letters so much. In essays ranging in topics from dictionary review to culinary…Mar 1, 20171Mar 1, 20171
Adam Salo‘The Underground Railroad,’ the novel, a reviewI really admire Colson Whitehead. Far more than Johnathan Franzen or most other contemporary authors who get saddled withe the mantle of…Jan 27, 2017Jan 27, 2017
Adam SaloThe piquant southern edge of summerThere’s a deafening scream of cicadas that stifles all. For a brief window they descend, every 17 years. Their high-pitched thrum drowns…Sep 1, 2016Sep 1, 2016
Adam SaloThe four wheeled sideshow under the big top of the five ringed circusOn Sunday, August 21, 2016, the Olympic Games in Rio came to a close. Those fans and armchair athletes who spent two weeks enwrapped in the…Aug 30, 20161Aug 30, 20161