Sickened

Sickened

Rating:  Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood, by Julie Gregory.  Bantam Books (2003), 246 pages. This is the most one-of-a-kind memoir I’ve ever read. It is incomparable in its horror—even within the subcategory of memoirs featuring...
Firmin

Firmin

Rating:  Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife, by Sam Savage.  Coffee House Press (2006), 148 pages. This little novella is light on plot, but the writing is so lovely a storyline hardly matters.  It’s hard to believe this is Savage’s...