Charles McNair

Charles McNair is the books editor at Paste Magazine. He is also the author of the novel Land O'Goshen, a 1994 Pultizer Prize nominee for fiction. Every week he stops by to give his insights and review to some of the most historically significant books.

Charles McNair's book reviews air every Monday in the 8 o'clock hour.


Most Recent Review

T.S. Eliot – Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

T.S. Eliot - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats


All Reviews Are Sorted by Author First Name

A
Albert Camus - The Stranger

C
Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Charles Portis - Norwood
Chinuah Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Clyde Edgerton - Rainey
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian

E
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea

F
Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find
Forrest Carter - The Education of Little Tree
Fred Gipson - Old Yeller

G
George Orwell - Animal Farm

H
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine
Ha Jin - A Free Life
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Heather McElhatton - Pretty Little Mistakes
Herman Melville - Moby Dick

I
Ian Flemming - Dr. No

J
J.P. Dunleavy - The Gingerman
Jack Pendarvis - Your Body is Changing
Jaime Allen - The Duck Herring Company Pocket Field
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones

L
Lemony Snicket - The Bad Beginning
Louis L'Amour - High Lonesome

M
Margaret Wise Brown - Goodnight Moon
Mark Childress - One Mississippi
Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
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Michael Shaara - The Killer Angels

N
Neil Gaiman - Sandman
Nikolai Gogol - Taras Bul'ba

P
Paul Hemphill - Long Gone

R
Richard Bausch - Peace
Richard Brautigan - Trout Fishing in America
Robert B Parker - Robert B. Parker
Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde

S
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
Scott Smith - The Ruins

T
Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried

W

Charles reviews Nathaniel West’s vivid and excoriating satire of Hollywood, The Day of the Locust. Written in the late 1930s, the book though fictional takes much of its narrative and characters from West’s experiences living on Hollywood Boulevard and working as a struggling screenwriter.

Nathaniel West - The Day of the Locust

Walker Percy - The Moviegoer
Willa Cather - O Pioneers