I started Condalmo in the Fall of 2005 as a site where I could write about books. I moved it to Tumblr in early 2011. 

My book reviews and criticism have appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper, Kirkus Reviews, The Quarterly Conversation, the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper, Barnes & Noble Review, WETA’s Book Studio, PopMatters, Shelf Awareness, AudioFile Magazine, Booklist, and other places. I’ve also interviewed authors for this site, though not recently.

If you’re a publisher, or you work at a company that publishes, you can contact me via the link on this site’s home page regarding catalogs, review copies, advanced reader copies, and related materials.  

I tend to lean toward “literary fiction” and “non-fiction” most of the time, but I appreciate being surprised. I’m also interested in reviewing psychology, counseling, and therapy books.

A few of my reviews:

• TALKING BACK TO FACEBOOK: A Common Sense Guide to Raising Kids in the Digital Age by James P. Steyer (reviewed for Kirkus Reviews)
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain (reviewed at the Cleveland Plain Dealer)
• Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream, and Five Acres in Maine by Lou Ureneck (reviewed at the Star Tribune)
• The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits by Kent Greenfield (reviewed at Shelf Awareness)
• Damascus by Joshua Mohr (reviewed at Shelf Awareness)
• My Korean Deli by Ben Ryder Howe (reviewed at Barnes & Noble Review)
• Play Their Hearts Out by George Dohrmann (reviewed at the Star Tribune)
• The Case for Books by Robert Darnton (reviewed at the Star Tribune)
• A Country Called Amreeka by Alia Malek (reviewed at the Star Tribune)
• Ticknor by Sheila Heti (reviewed at Small Spiral Notebook) (site defunct)
• The Exquisite by Laird Hunt (reviewed at PopMatters)
• Of Song and Water by Joseph Coulson (reviewed at The Quarterly Conversation)
• Yann Andrea Steiner by Marguerite Duras (reviewed at PopMatters)
• The Dead Fish Museum by Charles D’Ambrosio (reviewed at Condalmo)
• The Junior Officers’ Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey (reviewed at the Star Tribune)
• The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson (reviewed at The Elegant Variation)
• Who I Was Supposed To Be by Susan Perabo (reviewed at Small Spiral Notebook) (site defunct)
• Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami (reviewed at The Quarterly Conversation)
• Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago (reviewed at PopMatters)
• Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet (reviewed at The Quarterly Conversation)
• A Country Called Amreeka by Alia Malek (reviewed at the Star Tribune)

I am a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

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2012