Off the Shelf By Julianna Haubner    |   Friday, January 08, 2016 I came upon David Gilbert’s novel & Sons by chance: I was browsing the shelves of The Corner Bookstore, an Upper East Side landmark, during the summer of 2013 when I noticed that the staff was setting up rows of chairs for a reading. When I asked what event was about to take place, they told me that it was for a novel set in the New York literary world, about a reclusive author and his family. I was sold (and so was a copy of the book). READ MORE