The Page 99 Test

"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." --Ford Madox Ford

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Matt Wray's "Not Quite White"

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Matt Wray is co-editor of White Trash: Race and Class in America , Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life , and The Making and...
Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Maureen Jennings's "A Journeyman to Grief"

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Maureen Jennings has written seven Detective Murdoch novels : Except the Dying , shortlisted for both the Anthony and the Arthur Ellis Bes...
Sunday, May 27, 2007

Simon Haynes's "Just Desserts"

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Simon Haynes is the author of three Hal Spacejock novels, a number of articles on writing and publishing, and several short stories, one of...
Friday, May 25, 2007

Heather McElhatton's "Pretty Little Mistakes"

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Heather McElhatton is a writer and independent producer for Public Radio International. Her commentaries and stories have been heard nation...
Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Ann Crittenden's "The Price of Motherhood"

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Ann Crittenden is an award-winning journalist, author, and lecturer. Her latest book, If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything, ...
Monday, May 21, 2007

Stephanie Elizondo Griest's "Around the Bloc"

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Stephanie Elizondo Griest has "volunteered at children’s shelters in Russia, polished propaganda in China, and belly danced with rumba...
Saturday, May 19, 2007

Lydia Millet's "My Happy Life"

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Lydia Millet applied the " Page 99 Test " to her third novel, My Happy Life , winner of the 2003 PEN-USA Award. Here is the text ...
Thursday, May 17, 2007

Paul Schneider's "Brutal Journey"

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Paul Schneider is the author of The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness , The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, M...
Tuesday, May 15, 2007

David Weinberger's "Everything Is Miscellaneous"

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David Weinberger is the co-author of the international bestseller The Cluetrain Manifesto and the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined . ...
Monday, May 14, 2007

Charles Tilly's "Why?"

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Charles Tilly is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. His 2006 book Why? (Princeton University Press...
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