Author: Claire Blechman

  • The Rules of the Tunnel

    The Rules of the Tunnel: A Brief Period of Madness Ned Zeman Gotham Books, August 2011 320 pages $26.00 You’re Vanity Fair Senior Editor Ned Zeman. And you’ve been very depressed. You’ve gone through six therapists, done a stint at Maclean, and finally ended up taking the treatment of last resort: electro-convulsive therapy. Then you’re…

  • The Gambler’s Nephew

    The Gambler’s NephewJack MatthewsEtruscan Press, May 2011240 pages$15.95 Jack Matthews’ first novel, Hanger Stout, Awake!, was published in 1967, and his latest, The Gambler’s Nephew, is already the 23rd in his half-century career. Thankfully it’s never too late to discover a writer this pleasant to read. Like many of Matthews’ other stories, Gambler’s Nephew is…