November 2025 Archives

From the 2025 literary season. "It's the eternal story of two people stumbling around blind, constantly bumping into each other while trying to fit themselves into old ideas, worn-out dreams, and mistaken notions." A small town somewhere in America. Two elderly neighbors, both widowed, both lonely. Then one of them makes an unusual proposition. What if they spent nights together? Just talking. Just being less alone. Haruf's final novel cuts straight through the noise. No fancy tricks. Just two people trying to figure out what intimacy means when you've lived most of your life already.

"You can't imagine what you can do with a man who has stopped reasoning and thinking for himself. You can turn him into absolutely anything you want." When stupidity seems to be winning everywhere you look, it's refreshing to read something that refuses to compromise. An architect who won't bend. Won't conform. Won't water down his vision to make everyone comfortable. Rand doesn't write characters - she writes manifestos with legs. And in a world where everyone's desperate to please everyone else, there's something brutal and necessary about watching someone refuse to play that game. Whether you agree with her philosophy or not, this book punches you in the face and makes you think about what integrity actually costs.