Drew Toal

Drew Toal is a freelance writer and photo booth operator. He currently resides in Brooklyn. Some of his tattoos were featured in the 2010 book, The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos From Bookworms Worldwide.

'Tumbledown'

A Bar of Paranoid Schizos

A therapist finds a cast of patients that may just be saner. Drew Toal reads Robert Boswell’s new Californian novel.

Drew Toal

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Messianic

The Ultimate Cult Novel

Fiona Maazel has achieved the rare double: a cult author writing about a cult. Drew Toal on her latest novel.

Drew Toal

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Angels and Demons

A New ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’

Novelist Victor LaValle’s <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400069866/thedaibea-20/">The Devil in Silver</a> combines religion, mental illness and horror, and shows how those three easily blend together. By Drew Toal.

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Must Reads

3 Offbeat New Novels

From a young man in a coma inhabiting an afterlife, to one year in the lives of two young lovers.

Kevin Canfield

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Life of Cities

This Week's Must Read Books

This week: the Paris years of Jackie O, Susan Sontag and Angela Davis, the symmetry and messiness of lost causes, the steampunk City of Bohane, and Adam Wilson is a writer to watch.

Lauren Elkin

Drew Toal

A Bar of Paranoid Schizos

The Ultimate Cult Novel

A New ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’

3 Offbeat New Novels

This Week's Must Read Books

3 Must-Reads

Great Weekend Reads