A SoCal marijuana operation run by a botany major and Navy SEAL is running smoothly -- until a cartel moves up from Mexico and tries to take up some of their space. As quickly as the story begins, things get out of hand. And now a movie directed by Oliver Stone.
To put it politely, Willy Muller is a jerk. He is also a drunk, a deadbeat, a hack writer, a lousy son, a lousier father, and a murderer (more or less). He is a great character, the antihero at the diseased heart of Zoe Heller's recently re-released debut novel, Everything You Know.
You probably know Mindy Kaling best for her work on the NBC sitcom “The Office,” where she wears three hats as writer, director, and actor. Now, welcome to a whole other side of Mindy – the “B” sides, if you will – in Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns).
An Ominous, Sensual Debut: Jamie Quatro’s I Want to Show You More
Where Everybody Knows Your Name: The Supremes at Earl’s All You Can Eat
Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings: A New York Epic
A New Tale from Paulo Coelho: Manuscript Found in Accra
A Modern Classic That Endures: Robert Penn Warren's All the King’s Men
Alice Munro
Barbara Kingsolver
George Saunders
Haruki Murakami
Abigail Pollak
Allyson Pearl
Andrew Agudo
Jen Marshall
Joe Muscolino
Rita D. Jacobs
