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I took a reading hiatus over the Xmas break to watch tv series and movies, so this is my first book for 2011! I love his tweets (alaindebotton), and when I can afford to break my book-buying moratoriu… more →
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The Trick is Not Minding That It Hurts
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wrote 6 months ago: I take a long weekend and come back to this, Freshly Pressed and pregnant with followers. Thanks Wor … more →
The Book Queue: Augustus
wrote 2 years ago: Finished 4/5/11 John Williams must be the most underrated writer in American literature. Everything … more →
The Book Queue: Troubles
wrote 2 years ago: Finished 4/2/11 I’m always a little confused when I find great books that have somehow lost an … more →
The Book Queue:The Gospel of Anarchy
wrote 2 years ago: Finished 3/30/11 When all is said and done, I wonder if Justin Taylor will be a younger version of J … more →
The Book Queue: The Orange Eats Creeps
wrote 2 years ago: Finished 3/25/11 Look, I’m only human. If one of the highly-publicized indie press books of th … more →
The Book Queue: Kapitoil
wrote 2 years ago: Finished 3/16/11 In the 21st century, it’s hard to determine the role and direction of the con … more →
The Book Queue: Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles
wrote 2 years ago: Finished 3/13/11 I have to confess that most experimental fiction leaves me cold. At my core, I … more →
The Book Queue: Life and Fate
wrote 2 years ago: Finished 3/10/11 Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate is an 800+ opus about the lives of Russians d … more →
The Book Queue: Open City
wrote 2 years ago: Finished March 5, 2011. Arguably, W.G. Sebald was the most innovative writers of the last ten … more →
The Book Queue: Consider the Lobster
wrote 2 years ago: Finished 2/15/11 Jesus, where do you start when you discuss David Foster Wallace in 2010? It seems l … more →
The Book Queue: Lord of Misrule
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wrote 2 years ago: Finished 2/12/11 Jaimy Gordon is now in her mid-sixties. She’s devoted her life to literature. … more →
The Book Queue: Autumn of the Patriarch
wrote 2 years ago: Finished 2/2/11 In his memoir Living to Tell the Tale, Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a story about a … more →
The Book Queue: Comedy in a Minor Key
wrote 2 years ago: Finished 1/30/11 Hans Keilson’s Comedy in a Minor Key is something of a rare bird. It’s … more →
The Book Queue: The Thin Red Line
wrote 2 years ago: Finished 1/24/11 Before it was the basis of Terence Malick’s 1998 film, The Thin Red Line was … more →
The Book Queue: Chronicle in Stone
wrote 2 years ago: Finished 1/15/11 If there’s any human quality that I value above all others, it’s a sens … more →
The Book Queue: This is Not a Novel
wrote 2 years ago: Finished 1/13/11 Eventually, anyone who loves writing has to come to terms with some essential post- … more →
The Book Queue: Lowboy
wrote 2 years ago: Finished 1/11/11 In Lowboy, Will Heller, a 16-year-old paranoid schizophrenic escapes his treatment … more →
The Book Queue: Parrot and Olivier in America
wrote 2 years ago: Finished 1/8/11 In Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey provides his personal spin on A … more →
The Book Queue: Mr. Sammler's Planet
wrote 2 years ago: Finished 1/3/11 In Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Saul Bellow’s protagonist is an elderly intelle … more →
